Wind speed dependence of single-site wave-height retrievals from high-frequency radars

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1381-1394

  Haus, Brian K ^a   Shay, Lynn K ^a   Work, Paul A ^b   Voulgaris, George ^c   Ramos, Rafael J ^a   Martinez Pedraja, Jorge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER PROFILERS; BACK-SCATTERED; BRAGG SCATTERING; BUOY DATA; CORRECTION FACTORS; DOPPLER SPECTRA; HEIGHT RETRIEVAL; HF RADARS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGH-FREQUENCY RADAR; OBSERVING SYSTEMS; PEAK ENERGY; SCALE SEPARATION; WAVE HEIGHTS; WIND SPEED;

DOPPLER EFFECT; ERRORS; WIND EFFECTS;

RADAR;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BACKSCATTER; BUOY SYSTEM; DOPPLER RADAR; ERROR ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE SCATTERING; WIND VELOCITY; WIND WAVE;

EID: 77957742654     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JTECHO730.1     Document Type: Article

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