MIMIC: A new approach to visualizing satellite microwave imagery of tropical cyclones

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 88, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1187-1196

  Wimmers, Anthony J ^a   Velden, Christopher S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SATELLITE IMAGERY; STORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER SATELLITES;

GROUND BASE RADAR ANIMATION; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; TROPICAL CYCLONES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

EID: 34548652664     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-88-8-1187     Document Type: Article

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