On the quality of high-resolution scatterometer winds

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Vogelzang, Jur ^a   Stoffelen, Ad ^a   Verhoef, Anton ^a   Figa Saldaña, Julia ^b  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^b EUMETSAT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND;

AIRBORNE MEASUREMENTS; BUOY MEASUREMENTS; CALIBRATION COEFFICIENTS; DATA SETS; ESTIMATED ERROR; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH SPATIAL FREQUENCY; NWP MODEL; SCATTEROMETER MEASUREMENTS; SCATTEROMETERS; SEAWINDS; SPACE-BORNE; SPECTRAL BEHAVIORS; SPECTRAL DIFFERENCES; WEATHER MODELS; WIND COMPONENTS; WIND SPECTRUM; ZONAL WIND;

METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIRBORNE SURVEY; CALIBRATION; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; SEAWINDS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 80455145450     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JC006640     Document Type: Article

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