Quantifying variance due to temporal and spatial difference between ship and satellite winds

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  May, Jackie C ^a,b   Bourassa, Mark A ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STENNIS SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VECTOR SPACES; WIND EFFECTS;

DATA SETS; IN-SITU DATA; OBSERVATIONAL ERRORS; SATELLITE WINDS; SEAWINDS; SPATIAL DIFFERENCES; TEMPORAL DIFFERENCES; TIME-DIFFERENCES; TOTAL VARIANCE; VECTOR WIND; WIND SPEED; WIND SPEED DISTRIBUTION;

SPEED;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 80052071231     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JC006931     Document Type: Article

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