Estimating maximum surface winds from hurricane reconnaissance measurements

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 868-883

  Powell, Mark D ^a,c   Uhlhorn, Eric W ^a   Kepert, Jeffrey D ^b  

^a ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC BASIN; BOUNDARY LAYER THEORY; DATA SETS; FLIGHT ALTITUDES; INERTIAL STABILITY; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; RADIAL PROFILES; REDUCTION FACTOR; REGRESSION MODEL; RELATIVE AZIMUTH; RMS ERRORS; STANDARD DEVIATION; STEPPED FREQUENCY; SURFACE WIND SPEED; SURFACE WINDS; WIND SPEED;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HURRICANE EFFECTS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WIND EFFECTS;

STORMS;

ESTIMATION METHOD; GPS; HURRICANE EVENT; MEASUREMENT METHOD; RADIOMETER; SURFACE WIND; WIND PROFILE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 69949177512     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008WAF2007087.1     Document Type: Article

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