A wind and rain backscatter model derived from AMSR and SeaWinds data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1595-1606

  Nielsen, Seth N ^a   Long, David G ^a  

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

Author keywords

Atmospheric measurements; Rain; Scattering; Wind

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED EARTH OBSERVING SATELLITES; ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER; ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENTS; BACKSCATTER MODEL; CO-LOCATED; FALSE ALARM RATE; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; PRECIPITATION RADAR; QUIKSCAT; RADAR BACKSCATTER; RAIN HEIGHT; RAIN RADAR; RAIN RATES; SCATTEROMETER; SEAWINDS; SURFACE-ROUGHENING; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS; WIND ESTIMATION; WIND VECTORS;

ALARM SYSTEMS; ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; BACKSCATTERING; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADAR CROSS SECTION; RADAR MEASUREMENT;

RAIN;

BACKSCATTER; ESTIMATION METHOD; MODELING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; WIND;

EID: 67349246457     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2007492     Document Type: Conference Paper

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