Simultaneous wind and rain estimation for QuikSCAT at ultra-high resolution

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 6 PART 1, 2011, Pages 1865-1878

  Owen, Michael P ^a   Long, David G ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

QuikSCAT; resolution enhancement; scatterometry; simultaneous wind rain retrieval; wind retrieval

Indexed keywords

QUIKSCAT; RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT; SCATTEROMETRY; SIMULTANEOUS WIND/RAIN RETRIEVAL; WIND RETRIEVAL;

ESTIMATION; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; RAIN GAGES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

RAIN;

BACKSCATTER; BUOY SYSTEM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; QUIKSCAT; RADAR; RAINFALL; SCATTEROMETER; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TRMM; WIND FIELD;

EID: 79957636565     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2102361     Document Type: Article

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