Impact of oceansat-2 scatterometer winds and TMI observations on phet cyclone simulation

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 3774-3779

  Kumar, Prashant ^a   Harish Kumar, K P ^b   Pal, Pradip Kumar ^a  

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

^b Faculty of Meteorology   (India)

Author keywords

Assimilation; ocean surface winds; Oceansat 2; Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Microwave Imager (TMI); Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model

Indexed keywords

ASSIMILATION; MICROWAVE IMAGERS; OCEAN SURFACE WINDS; OCEANSAT-2; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

DATA PROCESSING; EXPERIMENTS; HURRICANES; MARINE APPLICATIONS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; RAIN GAGES; SEA LEVEL; SPACE RESEARCH; STORMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WIND;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SCATTEROMETER; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SURFACE WIND; TRMM; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND DIRECTION;

ARABIAN SEA; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 84878158764     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2221720     Document Type: Article

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