Simultaneous wind and rain retrieval using seawinds data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1411-1423

  Draper, David W ^a,b   Long, David G ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BALL AEROSPACE AND TECHNOLOGIES CORP   (United States)

Author keywords

Maximum likelihood; Scatterometer; SeaWinds; Simultaneous wind rain retrieval; Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Precipitation Radar (PR)

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; BACKSCATTERING; DATA ACQUISITION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RADAR SYSTEMS; RAIN; SATELLITE GROUND STATIONS; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; VELOCITY CONTROL; WIND POWER;

MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD; SCATTEROMETER; SEAWINDS; SIMULTANEOUS WIND/RAIN RETRIEVAL; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION (TRM) PRECIPITATION RADAR (PR);

SEAWATER EFFECTS;

EID: 4043138690     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2004.830169     Document Type: Article

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