Cloud-drift and water vapor winds in the polar regions from MODIS

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 2 PART 1, 2003, Pages 482-491

  Key, Jeffrey R ^a   Santek, David ^b   Velden, Christopher S ^b   Bormann, Niels ^c   Thépaut, Jean Noël ^c   Riishojgaard, Lars Peter ^d   Zhu, Yanqiu ^d   Menzel, W Paul ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

MODIS; Numerical weather prediction; Polar meteorology; Satellite applications; Winds

Indexed keywords

GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; METEOROLOGY; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND;

NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; POLAR METEOROLOGY; SATELLITE APPLICATIONS;

CLOUDS;

EID: 36549043404     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.808238     Document Type: Article

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