Retrieval and quality assessment of wind velocity vectors on the ocean with C-Band SAR

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2519-2537

  Carvajal, Gisela K ^a   Eriksson, Leif E B ^a   Ulander, Lars M H ^a,b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Directional variation; numerical weather model (NWM); ocean surface wind; scatterometer; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); wind direction; wind direction variation with resolution; wind speed

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; ALGORITHMS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; NUMERICAL MODELS; WIND;

DIRECTIONAL VARIATION; NUMERICAL WEATHER MODEL; OCEAN SURFACE WINDS; SCATTEROMETERS; WIND DIRECTIONS; WIND SPEED;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALGORITHM; ASSESSMENT METHOD; DATA SET; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESOLUTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84896318641     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2262377     Document Type: Article

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