COMPUTATION OF WIND SPEED AND WAVE HEIGHTS FROM GEOS-3 DATA

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MOGNARD, N
LAGO, B
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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH | 1979年 / 84卷 / NB8期
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10.1029/JB084iB08p03979
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P3 [地球物理学]; P59 [地球化学];
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0708 ; 070902 ;
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We have processes radar altimeter data from more than 10 Geos 3 passes. The statistical analysis of the stretching of the leading edge of the return radar pulses gives us an estimate of the significant wave heights, as reported by other scientists. The wave height and wind speed estimates are in favourable agreement with the meteorological information obtained from weather maps used as sea truth, thus resulting in interesting complementarities.-from Authors
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页码:3979 / 3986
页数:8
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