Obtaining accurate ocean surface winds in hurricane conditions: A dual-frequency scatterometry approach

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3101-3113

  Stiles, Bryan W ^a   Hristova Veleva, Svetla M ^a   Dunbar, R Scott ^a   Chan, Samuel ^a   Durden, Stephen L ^a   Esteban Fernandez, Daniel ^a   Rodriguez, Ernesto ^a   Poulsen, W Lee ^a   Gaston, Robert W ^a   Callahan, Philip S ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hurricanes; ocean surface winds; radar; scatterometry

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ATLANTIC HURRICANE; CO-LOCATED; DEGREES OF FREEDOM; DUAL FREQUENCY; HEAVY PRECIPITATION; HIGH FIDELITY; HIGH RESOLUTION; KATRINA; MISSION CONCEPTS; NORMALIZED RADAR CROSS SECTION; OCEAN SURFACE WINDS; OCEAN WINDS; RADAR SIMULATION; SCATTEROMETERS; SCATTEROMETRY; VECTOR WIND; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS; WIND SPEED;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HURRICANES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; NEURAL NETWORKS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADAR; RADAR CROSS SECTION; RAIN; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; HURRICANE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RADAR IMAGERY; SCATTEROMETER; SEA SURFACE; SURFACE WIND;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 77954762821     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2045765     Document Type: Article

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