Studies of the influence of rainfall upon scatterometer estimates for sea surface stress: Applications to boundary layer parameterization and drag coefficient models within tropical cyclone environments

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 4154-4157

  Weissman, David E ^a   Winterbottom, Henry R ^b   Bourassa, Mark A ^b  

^a HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; DRAG; DRAG COEFFICIENT; HURRICANES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; NASA; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SPACE-BASED RADAR; STORMS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS; TROPICS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND;

DRAG COEFFICIENT MODELS; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION; NORMALIZED RADAR CROSS SECTION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; QUICK SCATTEROMETER (QUIKSCAT); RAIN MEASUREMENT; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SATELLITE SCATTEROMETERS;

RADAR CROSS SECTION;

EID: 78650871822     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5652373     Document Type: Conference Paper

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