New ocean winds satellite mission to probe hurricanes and tropical convection

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 385-395

  Ruf, Christopher S ^a   Atlas, Robert ^b   Chang, Paul S ^b   Clarizia, Maria Paola ^a   Garrison, James L ^c   Gleason, Scott ^d   Katzberg, Stephen J ^e   Jelenak, Zorana ^b   Johnson, Joel T ^f   Majumdar, Sharanya J ^g   O'Brien, Andrew ^f   Posselt, Derek J ^a   Ridley, Aaron J ^a   Rose, Randall J ^d   Zavorotny, Valery U ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^f OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HURRICANES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; RADAR; SATELLITES; SPEED; STORMS;

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GEOPHYSICAL MODEL FUNCTION; GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS; HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; MODELING AND FORECAST; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SATELLITE NAVIGATION SIGNALS; SPECULAR REFLECTIONS;

WIND;

EID: 84963804676     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-14-00218.1     Document Type: Article

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