An improved C-band ocean surface emissivity model at hurricane-force wind speeds over a wide range of earth incidence angles

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 641-645

  El Nimri, Salem Fawwaz ^a   Jones, W Linwood ^a   Uhlhorn, Eric ^b   Ruf, Christopher ^c   Johnson, James ^a   Black, Peter ^d,e  

^a University of Central Florida   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^e NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hurricane Imaging Radiometer (HIRAD); hurricane winds; ocean surface emissivity; radiometry; Stepped Frequency Microwave Radiometer (SFMR)

Indexed keywords

BAND EMISSIVITIES; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; CURRENT MODELS; HIGH QUALITY; IMAGING RADIOMETERS; INCIDENCE ANGLES; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; OCEAN SURFACE EMISSIVITY; PHYSICALLY BASED; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELING; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SPACE-BORNE; STEPPED-FREQUENCY; WIND SPEED; WINDSAT;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; HURRICANES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVES; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIOMETERS; SPEED; TEMPERATURE;

RADIOMETRY;

EID: 77957995825     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2010.2043814     Document Type: Article

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