Comparison of ocean surface winds from ENVISAT ASAR, MetOp ASCAT Scatterometer, buoy measurements, and NOGAPS model

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 12 PART 1, 2011, Pages 4743-4750

  Yang, Xiaofeng ^a   Li, Xiaofeng ^b   Pichel, William G ^c   Li, Ziwei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS   (China)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Data   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT); buoy; ocean surface wind; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; ASAR BEAMS; BUOY MEASUREMENTS; CALIBRATION ERROR; ENVISAT; ENVISAT ASAR; GEOPHYSICAL MODEL FUNCTION; METOP-A; MODEL ESTIMATES; NATIONAL DATA BUOY CENTERS; OCEAN SURFACE WINDS; SCATTEROMETERS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STANDARD DEVIATION; U.S. NAVY; WIND RETRIEVALS; WIND SPEED; WIND SPEED MEASUREMENT;

BUOYS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; WIND EFFECTS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BUOY SYSTEM; CALIBRATION; ENVISAT-1; POLARIZATION; SCATTEROMETER; SEA SURFACE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SURFACE WATER; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WIND VELOCITY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 82155167671     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2159802     Document Type: Conference Paper

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