A marine radar wind sensor

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1629-1642

  Dankert, Heiko ^a,b   Horstmann, Jochen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BACKSCATTERING; RADAR IMAGING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WIND EFFECTS;

NORMALIZED RADAR CROSS SECTION; PLATFORM-INDUCED TURBULENCE; WIND MEASUREMENTS; WIND VECTOR;

MARINE RADAR;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BACKSCATTERING; MARINE RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WIND EFFECTS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BACKSCATTER; CORRELATION; DATA SET; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENT PLATFORM; PARAMETERIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RADAR; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TURBULENCE; WAVE HEIGHT; WIND DIRECTION; WIND VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GERMAN BIGHT; NORTH SEA;

EID: 35348919425     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH2083.1     Document Type: Article

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