High-resolution mapping of Bora winds in the northern Adriatic Sea using synthetic aperture radar

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Signell, Richard P ^a,b   Chiggiato, Jacopo ^a,c   Horstmann, Jochen ^c,d   Doyle, James D ^e   Pullen, Julie ^e,f   Askari, Farid ^a  

^a NATO UNDERSEA RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c Arpa Emilia Romagna   (Italy)

^d INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^f STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRACTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; WIND;

ADRIATIC; ADRIATIC SEA; BARRIER JETS; CROATIA; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH-RESOLUTION MAPPING; IN-SITU; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; METEOROLOGICAL MODELS; MULTIPLE SURFACES; NORTHERN ADRIATIC SEA; RADARSAT 1; RHYTHMIC STRUCTURES; SAR IMAGES; SPACE-BORNE; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGES; WIND EVENTS; WIND FIELD; WIND SPEED;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; ERROR ANALYSIS; GYRE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; JET FLOW; JET STREAM; MAPPING METHOD; METEOROLOGY; OROGRAPHY; RADARSAT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURFACE WIND; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WIND FIELD; WIND VELOCITY;

ADRIATIC SEA; APENNINES; CROATIA; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SENJ;

EID: 77953587092     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JC005524     Document Type: Article

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