Publication Date:
2022-05-26
Description:
The ERS-1 scatterometer is the first operational satellite scatterometer in more than a decade. This report describes a
technique developed at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to process and analyze the data.
Four years of data (January 1992-December 1995) was analyzed in the North Pacific ocean. Gridded 0.5° x 0.5° wind,
wind stress and wind stress curl fields were generated for the North Pacific Ocean on times scale of one week to one month.
This data set was compared with in-situ measurements from buoys and coastal weather stations and numerical models. The results show good agreement with models and in-situ measurements. Biweekly maps were chosen after examining
error/temporal resolution tradeoff curve.
Description:
Funding was provided by the Office of Naval Research through contracts No. N00014-92-J-1486
and N00014-92-J-1656 and by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
under Contract No. 957652.
Keywords:
ERS-1 Scatterometer
;
Wind maps
Repository Name:
Woods Hole Open Access Server
Type:
Technical Report
Format:
5102260 bytes
Format:
application/pdf
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