Directional signals in windsat observations of hurricane ocean winds

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 130-136

  Yueh, Simon H ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hurricanes; Microwave polarimetry; Seasurface wind

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVE POLARIMETRY; SEASURFACE WIND; SINUSOIDAL SERIES;

CLOUDS; DATA ACQUISITION; POLARIMETERS; WATER WAVES; WIND EFFECTS;

HURRICANES;

EID: 37249002339     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.909079     Document Type: Article

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