Cross-polarized synthetic aperture radar

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 531-541

  Zhang, Biao ^a,b   Perrie, William ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOY DATA; CROSS POLARIZATIONS; CROSS-POLARIZED; INCIDENCE ANGLES; RADARSAT-2; WIND ANALYSIS; WIND DIRECTIONS; WIND SPEED;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; ERRORS; POLARIZATION; WIND EFFECTS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84860697372     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00001.1     Document Type: Article

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