Articles | Volume 7, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-437-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-437-2014
Research article
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07 Feb 2014
Research article |  | 07 Feb 2014

Retrieving hurricane wind speeds using cross-polarization C-band measurements

G.-J. van Zadelhoff, A. Stoffelen, P. W. Vachon, J. Wolfe, J. Horstmann, and M. Belmonte Rivas

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