Satellite microwave surface observations in tropical cyclones

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 421-437

  Quilfen, Yves ^a   Chapron, Bertrand ^a   Tournadre, Jean ^a  

^a Centre Bretagne   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MICROWAVE; DUAL FREQUENCY; ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITES; EUROPEAN REMOTE SENSING; HEAVY RAINS; JASON-1; KEY ELEMENTS; KU BAND; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; MICROWAVE SIGNALS; MICROWAVE SURFACE; OBSERVING SYSTEMS; OPERATIONAL USE; PASSIVE MICROWAVE MEASUREMENTS; QUIKSCAT; RADARSAT; RAIN RATES; RAINY CONDITIONS; REMOTE SENSORS; SATELLITE IMAGES; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS; SCATTEROMETERS; SEA SURFACES; STEPPED FREQUENCY; SURFACE PARAMETER; SURFACE WIND FIELDS; SURFACE WIND SPEED; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS; WAVE HEIGHTS; WIND VECTORS;

GEODETIC SATELLITES; HURRICANES; IMAGING SYSTEMS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVES; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; STORMS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TROPICS; WIND EFFECTS;

MICROWAVE SENSORS;

ALTIMETER; ENVISAT-1; HURRICANE ISABEL 2003; HURRICANE WILMA 2005; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; QUIKSCAT; RADARSAT; RADIOMETER; RAINFALL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SCATTEROMETER; SEA SURFACE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 77953195877     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR3040.1     Document Type: Article

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