Abstract: The Special Sensor Microwave Imagers (SSM/I) aboard three DMSP satellites have provided a large dataset of surface wind speeds over the global oceans from July 1987 to the present. These data are characterized by high ...

Abstract: In this study, a two-dimensional variational analysis method (2DVAR) is applied to select a wind solution from NASA Scatterometer (NSCAT) ambiguous winds. A 2DVAR method determines a ?best? gridded surface wind analysis ...

Abstract: Satellite scatterometer observations of the ocean surface wind speed and direction improve the depiction of storms at sea. Over the ocean, scatterometer surface winds are deduced from multiple measurements of reflected ...