Improved hurricane ocean vector winds using sea winds active/passive retrievals

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2909-2923

  Laupattarakasem, Peth ^a,b   Jones, W Linwood ^a   Hennon, Christopher C ^c   Allard, John R ^c   Harless, Amy R ^d,e   Black, Peter G ^f  

^a University of Central Florida   (United States)

^b Webster University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^f SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

H; Hurricane retrieval; Ocean vector wind (OVW) retrieval; QuikSCAT; Rain correction; Scatterometer; SeaWinds; Wind

Indexed keywords

OCEAN VECTOR WIND (OVW) RETRIEVAL; QUIKSCAT; SCATTEROMETER; SCATTEROMETERS; SEAWINDS; VECTOR WIND;

ALGORITHMS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RAIN; VECTORS; WIND EFFECTS;

HURRICANES;

ALGORITHM; BACKSCATTER; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; GLOBAL OCEAN; HURRICANE; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; QUIKSCAT; RAINFALL; SCATTEROMETER; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE WIND; WIND MEASUREMENT; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 77953871015     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2043110     Document Type: Article

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