Wind-vector retrievals under rain with passive satellite microwave radiometers

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3065-3083

  Meissner, Thomas ^a   Wentz, Frank J ^a  

^a REMOTE SENSING SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwave radiometers; Ocean wind vector; Rain; Tropical cyclones; WindSat

Indexed keywords

BAND FREQUENCIES; DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; DIRECTION DEPENDENCE; GLOBAL ALGORITHMS; HEAVY RAINS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; OCEAN WIND VECTOR; PASSIVE SATELLITES; RETRIEVAL ACCURACY; SCATTEROMETERS; SPECTRAL SIGNATURE; SURFACE EMISSIVITY; SURFACE WIND SPEED; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL CYCLONES; TROPICAL STORMS; WIND SPEED; WINDSAT;

HURRICANE EFFECTS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVES; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; SPEED; STORMS; TERBIUM ALLOYS; TROPICS; VECTORS; WIND EFFECTS;

RAIN;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RAINBAND; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 70349316255     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2027012     Document Type: Article

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