Point-wise wind retrieval and ambiguity removal improvements for the QuikSCAT climatological data set

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 51-59

  Fore, Alexander G ^a   Stiles, Bryan W ^a   Chau, Alexandra H ^a   Williams, Brent A ^a   Dunbar, R Scott ^a   Rodríguez, Ernesto ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ocean winds; Radar; Rain; Remote sensing; Scatterometery

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM IMPROVEMENTS; CLIMATE DATA RECORDS; CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA; JET PROPULSION LABORATORY; OCEAN SURFACE WINDS; OCEAN WINDS; REMOTE SENSING INSTRUMENTS; SCATTEROMETERY;

BACKSCATTERING; RADAR; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING;

ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; BACKSCATTER; CALIBRATION; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA SET; INSTRUMENTATION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; QUIKSCAT; RADAR; RAINFALL; REMOTE SENSING; SCATTEROMETER;

EID: 84890438632     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2235843     Document Type: Article

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