Measurements of the effect of rain-induced sea surface roughness on the QuikSCAT scatterometer radar cross section

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2882-2894

  Weissman, David E ^a   Bourassa, Mark A ^b  

^a HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Normalized radar cross section (NRCS); QuikSCAT SeaWinds radar; Rainrate over the oceans

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; RADAR; RADAR CROSS SECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

CROSS SECTIONING; NORMALIZED RADAR CROSS SECTION (NRCS); QUIKSCAT; QUIKSCAT/SEAWINDS RADAR; RAINRATE OVER THE OCEANS; SATELLITE SCATTEROMETERS; SCATTEROMETER; SEA SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SEA SURFACES;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

EID: 53849120606     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2001032     Document Type: Conference Paper

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