Marine wind analysis from remotely sensed measurements

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 450-465

  Perrie, Will ^a   Dunlap, Ewa ^b   Vachon, Paris W ^c   Toulany, Bechara ^a   Anderson, Robert ^a   Dowd, Michael ^d  

^a BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

^b Weathervane Scientific Inc   (Canada)

^c CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

^d ST ANDREWS BIOLOGICAL STATION   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEODETIC SATELLITES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; NASA; RADAR; RADAR CROSS SECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND;

COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; CORRELATION FUNCTION; EUROPEAN REMOTE SENSING; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; OPTIMAL INTERPOLATION; REMOTELY SENSED DATA; SATELLITE SCATTEROMETERS;

SPACE-BASED RADAR;

EID: 35748951486     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5589/m02-045     Document Type: Article

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