NASA scatterometer provides global ocean-surface wind fields with more structures than numerical weather prediction

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 761-764

  Liu, W Timothy ^a   Tang, Wenqing ^a   Polito, Paulo S ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA REDUCTION; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER SATELLITES; WIND; FORECASTING; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; NASA;

SCATTEROMETERS; WIND FIELDS; ENERGY CONTENT; EQUATORIAL REGIONS; EUROPEAN CENTER FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; GLOBAL OCEAN SURFACE; NASA SCATTEROMETER; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

CLIMATOLOGY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

OCEAN SURFACE WIND; SCATTEROMETER; WEATHER PREDICTION;

EID: 7344226186     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL00544     Document Type: Article

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