Generation and validation of analysed wind vectors over the global oceans

Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 114-122

  Chakraborty, Abhisek ^a   Kumar, Raj ^a  

^a Indian Space Research Organization Space Application Centre   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL OCEAN; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; MEDIUM RANGE; MODEL ANALYSIS; OCEAN WIND VECTOR; SCATTEROMETERS; SPATIAL INTERPOLATION; STANDARD DEVIATION; VALIDATION RESULTS; WIND DIRECTIONS; WIND SPEED; WIND VECTORS;

WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND STRESS;

METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS;

BUOY SYSTEM; GLOBAL OCEAN; INTERPOLATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SCATTEROMETER; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND DIRECTION; WIND FIELD; WIND STRESS; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84869046257     PISSN: 2150704X     EISSN: 21507058     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/2150704X.2012.701344     Document Type: Article

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