Observations of Bora events over the Adriatic Sea and Black Sea by spaceborne synthetic aperture radar

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1150-1161

  Alpers, Werner ^a   Ivanov, Andrei ^b   Horstmann, Jochen ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d NATO UNDERSEA RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRIATIC SEA; ADVANCED SAR; ATMOSPHERIC GRAVITY WAVES; ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; BLACK SEA; EAST COAST; ENVISAT; ENVISAT ASAR; FINE-SCALE STRUCTURES; IN-BAND; MESOSCALE; NORMALIZED CROSS-SECTION; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; ROUGHNESS PATTERNS; SAR IMAGES; SEA SURFACE WIND; SEA SURFACES; SPACE-BORNE INSTRUMENTS; SPACEBORNE SAR; SPACEBORNE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGES; WIND DIRECTIONS; WIND FIELD; WIND SCATTEROMETERS; WIND SPEED;

GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVISAT-1; GRAVITY WAVE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; JET FLOW; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WAKE; WIND DIRECTION; WIND FIELD;

ADRIATIC SEA; BLACK SEA; EURASIA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 68349119136     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2563.1     Document Type: Article

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