Abstract: The errors in ship wind reports of light winds tend to significantly bias their mean. This occurs because wind speed is a scalar quantity that is constrained to zero or positive values. Therefore, observations tend to ...

Abstract: Rainfall is analyzed for the Indian and west Pacific Oceans. The analysis uses a multichannel scheme to retrieve open-ocean rain rate from brightness temperatures measured between 1979 and 1986 by the Nimbus-7 Scanning ...

Abstract: A detailed analysis of the wind stress patterns over the Indian Ocean was made from 1 May to 31 July 1979. A combination of cloud motion and ship data obtained once per day was used to diagnose the surface-wind patterns ...

Abstract: Cloud motions over the Indian Ocean for May?July 1979 were used to obtain spatial auto correlations of the deviations of the wind components from local means. Best correlations were associated with u?, low altitude clouds ...

Abstract: We have studied the changes in marine stratocumulus cloud cover observed during the FIRF, Program and how cloud cover related to synoptic conditions. Statistical analyses of the 21 day FIRE period show that marine stratocumulus ...

Abstract: In a comparison between 37 GHz brightness temperatures from the Nimbus 7 Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer and rain rates derived from the WSR-57 radars at Galveston, Texas and Apalachicola, Florida, it was found ...

Abstract: Monthly rain failing on the Indian Ocean is mapped for the period 1979 through 1981 by means of observations of the Nimbus-7 Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer. Both stationary and mobile parts were found in the ...

Abstract: Statistics on boundary layer vertical wind shear were gathered from rawinsonde soundings taken from three small islands and one weather ship. These soundings show a high correlation between surface and 1829 m altitude wind ...

Abstract: The feasibility of using satellites for providing surface winds or wind stress data was explored. Three popular methods were compared using nearly colocated data to assess the accuracies of each and the coverage that each ...

Abstract: This study discusses a rainfall algorithm utilizing six channels of microwave radiance data from the Nimbus-7 Scanning Multifrequency Microwave Radiometer. The algorithm is intended for short-term climate studies over the ...