Calibration of reflected GPS for tropical storm wind speed retrievals

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 18, 2006, Pages

  Katzberg, Stephen J ^a   Torres, Omar ^a   Ganoe, George ^a  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; OCEANOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STORMS; CALIBRATION; HURRICANES; SPEED; TROPICS;

WIND SPEED;

WIND;

GPS; HURRICANE EVENT; MODELING; SEA SURFACE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WIND VELOCITY;

HURRICANE SEASON; MEAN SQUARE SLOPES; OCEAN SURFACE WINDS; PROBABILITY DENSITIES; REFLECTED SIGNAL; RETRIEVAL PERFORMANCE; SURFACE REFLECTIONS; SURFACE WIND SPEED;

EID: 38549131251     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026825     Document Type: Article

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