Impact of satellite winds on marine wind simulations

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 290-303

  Perrie, William ^a   Zhang, Weiqing ^b   Bourassa, Mark ^c   Shen, Hui ^a,d   Vachon, Paris W ^e  

^a BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^e DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; HURRICANES; OCEAN CURRENTS; REMOTE SENSING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA ASSIMILATION METHOD; MARINE WIND;

WIND;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FIELD METHOD; HURRICANE ISABEL 2003; PREDICTION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; WIND;

EID: 44849124045     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007WAF2006093.1     Document Type: Article

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