Buoy perspective of a high-resolution global ocean vector wind analysis constructed from passive radiometers and active scatterometers (1987-present)

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Yu, Lisan ^a   Jin, Xiangze ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOY MEASUREMENTS; BUOY TIME SERIES; DIFFERENCE PATTERNS; GLOBAL OCEAN; GLOBAL OCEAN SURFACE; GLOBAL WINDS; HIGH RESOLUTION; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; PASSIVE MICROWAVES; QUIKSCAT; SCATTEROMETERS; SURFACE CURRENT; VECTOR CORRELATIONS; VECTOR WIND; WIND DIRECTIONS; WIND SPEED; WIND SPEED AND DIRECTIONS; WINDSAT;

METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; SENSORS; WIND EFFECTS;

BUOYS;

BENCHMARKING; BUOYANCY; GLOBAL OCEAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROJECT ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SCATTEROMETER; TIME SERIES; TROPICAL REGION; WIND DIRECTION; WIND PROFILE; WIND VELOCITY; WINDSAT;

EID: 84870158622     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JC008069     Document Type: Article

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