High-resolution ASCAT scatterometer winds near the coast

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 7 PART1, 2012, Pages 2481-2487

  Verhoef, Anton ^a   Portabella, Marcos ^b   Stoffelen, Ad ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^b CSIC Unidad de Tecnologia Marina UTM   (Spain)

Author keywords

Radar scattering; sea coast; wind

Indexed keywords

COAST LINES; COASTAL REGIONS; COASTAL WINDS; FULL RESOLUTIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION; LAND CONTAMINATION; RADAR SCATTERING; SATELLITE APPLICATION FACILITIES; SCATTEROMETERS; SEA BREEZE; SEA COAST; SEA WINDS; SPATIAL AVERAGING; STANDARD DEVIATION; WIND COMPONENTS; WIND-VECTOR-CELLS;

BACKSCATTERING; COASTAL ZONES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; SEA ICE;

WIND;

BACKSCATTER; COASTAL ZONE; DATA SET; KATABATIC FLOW; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; OPEN OCEAN; RADAR; RESOLUTION; SCATTERING; SCATTEROMETER; SEA BREEZE; WIND FIELD; WIND PROFILE;

EID: 84863003602     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2175001     Document Type: Article

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