A New Generation of Tropical Cyclone Size Measurements from Space

@article{Reul2017ANG,
  title={A New Generation of Tropical Cyclone Size Measurements from Space},
  author={Nicolas Reul and Bertrand Chapron and Elizaveta V. Zabolotskikh and Craig Donlon and Alexis Aur{\'e}lien Mouche and Joseph Tenerelli and Fabrice Collard and Jean-François Pioll{\'e} and Alexander G. Fore and Simon H. Yueh and James Cotton and P. E. Francis and Yves Quilfen and Vladimir N. Kudryavtsev},
  journal={Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society},
  year={2017},
  volume={98},
  pages={2367-2385}
}
AbstractWind radii estimates in tropical cyclones (TCs) are crucial to helping determine the TC wind structure for the production of effective warnings and to constrain initial conditions for a num... 
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