Comparison of HOAPS, QuikSCAT, and buoy wind speed in the eastern North Atlantic and the North Sea

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 338-348

  Winterfeldt, Jörg ^a   Andersson, Axel ^b   Klepp, Christian ^b   Bakan, Stephan ^c   Weisse, Ralf ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hamburg ocean atmosphere parameters and fluxes from satellite (HOAPS); Marine wind speed; North Atlantic; North sea; QuikSCAT

Indexed keywords

HAMBURG OCEAN ATMOSPHERE PARAMETERS AND FLUXES FROM SATELLITE (HOAPS); MARINE WIND SPEED; MARINE WINDS; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH SEA; OCEAN ATMOSPHERE; QUIKSCAT;

BUOYS; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; ERROR CORRECTION; OCEANOGRAPHY; SATELLITES; WIND EFFECTS;

SPEED;

ALGORITHM; BUOY SYSTEM; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ERROR CORRECTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUIKSCAT; WIND PROFILE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 73249127957     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2023982     Document Type: Article

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