Estimating tropical cyclone intensity from infrared image data

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 690-698

  Piñeros, Miguel F ^a   Ritchie, Elizabeth A ^a   Tyo, J Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hurricanes; Infrared radiation; Remote sensing; Satellite observations; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

AXISYMMETRY; INDIRECT MEASUREMENTS; INFRARED IMAGERY; INFRARED IMAGES; INTENSITY ESTIMATION; MAXIMUM WIND SPEED; NEAR-REAL TIME; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; ROOT MEAN SQUARES; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; TEST SETS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL CYCLONE INTENSITY;

ESTIMATION; INFRARED IMAGING; INFRARED RADIATION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STORMS; TESTING; TROPICS; WIND EFFECTS;

HURRICANES;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ERROR ANALYSIS; HURRICANE; INFRARED IMAGERY; INFRARED RADIATION; OCEAN BASIN; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WIND VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 81855211984     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-10-05062.1     Document Type: Article

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