A new method for improving scatterometer wind quality control

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 579-583

  Portabella, M ^a   Stoffelen, A ^b   Verhoef, A ^b   Verspeek, J ^b  

^a CSIC Unidad de Tecnologia Marina UTM   (Spain)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Geophysical inverse problems; geophysical measurements; quality control; radar data processing; remote sensing

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; EUMETSAT POLAR SYSTEMS; GEOPHYSICAL INVERSE PROBLEMS; GEOPHYSICAL MEASUREMENTS; METOP-A; QC PROCEDURE; RADAR DATA PROCESSING; SCATTEROMETERS; WIND DATA; WIND INVERSION;

DATA PROCESSING; GEOPHYSICS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; REMOTE SENSING;

METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 84861200053     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2011.2175435     Document Type: Article

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