Seawinds hurricane wind retrievals and comparisons with H*Wind surface winds analyses

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Laupattarakasem, Peth ^a   Jones, W Linwood ^a   Hennon, Christopher C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Geophysical model function; Hurricane; Ocean wind vector winds; QuikSCAT; Scatterometer

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATED AREAS; GEOPHYSICAL MODEL FUNCTION; HURRICANE RESEARCH; IN-SITU; INERTIAL NAVIGATIONS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; OCEAN WIND VECTOR; OCEAN WIND VECTOR WINDS; PASSIVE MEASUREMENTS; QUIKSCAT; RAIN EFFECTS; REMOTE SENSORS; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SCATTEROMETER; SEAWINDS; SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT; STEPPED FREQUENCY; SURFACE WINDS; VECTOR WIND; VOLUME SCATTERING; WIND ANALYSIS; WIND EVENTS; WIND RETRIEVALS; WIND VECTOR MEASUREMENT; WIND VECTORS; WIND-VECTOR-CELLS;

GEOPHYSICS; HURRICANES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; NASA; NAVIGATION; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; VECTORS;

WIND EFFECTS;

EID: 67649755580     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4778849     Document Type: Conference Paper

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