Sea surface wind speed estimation from space-based lidar measurements

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 3593-3601

  Hu, Y ^a   Stamnes, K ^b   Vaughan, M ^a   Pelon, J ^c   Weimer, C ^d   Wu, D ^e   Cisewski, M ^a   Sun, W ^a   Yang, P ^f   Lin, B ^a   Omar, A ^a   Flittner, D ^a   Hostetler, C ^a   Trepte, C ^a   Winker, D ^a   Gibson, G ^a   Santa Maria, M ^a  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d BALL AEROSPACE AND TECHNOLOGIES CORP   (United States)

^e OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^f TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; CALIBRATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; GAUSSIAN METHOD; LIDAR; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA SURFACE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 47149083712     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-8-3593-2008     Document Type: Article

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