Towards a Climate Data Record of satellite ocean vector winds

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2067-2069

  Ricciardulli, Lucrezia ^a   Meissner, Thomas ^a   Wentz, Frank ^a  

^a REMOTE SENSING SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

climate data record; geophysical model function; Ocean surface winds; scatterometer

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PROCESS; CALIBRATION METHOD; CLIMATE DATA RECORDS; CLIMATE RESEARCH; DATA SETS; GEOPHYSICAL MODEL FUNCTION; HIGH WIND SPEED; MODEL FUNCTIONS; OCEAN SURFACE WINDS; QUIKSCAT; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SCATTEROMETERS; SURFACE WINDS; VECTOR WIND; WIND VECTORS;

GEOLOGY; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; REMOTE SENSING;

WIND;

EID: 84873198348     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6350966     Document Type: Conference Paper

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