Joint calibration of multiplatform altimeter measurements of wind speed and wave height over the past 20 Years

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2549-2564

  Zieger, S ^a   Vinoth, J ^a   Young, I R ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTIMETER MEASUREMENTS; ALTIMETER MISSIONS; BUOY DATA; DATA SETS; ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITES; EUROPEAN REMOTE SENSING; GLOBAL COVERAGE; GROUND POINT; INTERCOMPARISONS; JASON-1; JOINT CALIBRATION; LONG TERM ANALYSIS; MULTI-PLATFORM; OCEAN TOPOGRAPHY EXPERIMENTS; OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA; SATELLITE MISSION; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE HEIGHTS; WIND SPEED;

CALIBRATION; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; QUALITY CONTROL; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SPEED; WATER WAVES; WIND EFFECTS;

RADAR CROSS SECTION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CALIBRATION; ENVISAT-1; ERS-1; GEOSAT; MEASUREMENT METHOD; RADAR IMAGERY; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE MISSION; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; TOPEX-POSEIDON; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 73049101737     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JTECHA1303.1     Document Type: Article

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