Estimation of hurricane winds from SeaWinds at ultrahigh resolution

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2924-2935

  Williams, Brent A ^a   Long, David G ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Hurricane; Maximum a posteriori estimation; Scatterometry; Wind

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; HURRICANE EFFECTS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MODAL ANALYSIS; MODEL STRUCTURES; RAIN; SPEED; STORMS; TROPICS;

HURRICANE; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI ESTIMATION; SCATTEROMETRY; WIND;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 53849108851     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.924096     Document Type: Conference Paper

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