Investigation of trapped atmospheric gravity waves over the South China Sea using Envisat Synthetic Aperture Radar images

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 31, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 4725-4742

  Cheng, Cho Ming ^a   Alpers, W ^b  

^a HONG KONG OBSERVATORY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; GRAVITY WAVES; IMAGE ACQUISITION; MARINE RADAR; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; ORBITS; RADAR IMAGING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE WATERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WIND;

ADVANCED SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; ATMOSPHERIC GRAVITY WAVES; MARINE BOUNDARY LAYERS; POLAR-ORBITING SATELLITES; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; QUICK SCATTEROMETER SATELLITES; SEA SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SEA-SURFACE WIND SPEED;

SPACE-BASED RADAR;

ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; BOUNDARY LAYER; GRAVITY WAVE; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; QUIKSCAT; RADAR IMAGERY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA SURFACE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WIND VELOCITY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 77957701170     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2010.485145     Document Type: Article

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