Abstract: Statistical comparisons between winds measured by ACARS and winds obtained from radiosondes, geostationary satellite image cloud motions, and VAS are presented. Observations from three separate comparisons reveal over 60% ...

Abstract: Autocorrelation and variance statistics were calculated for seven types of wind data in the western hemispheric tropics. Most of these data came from the Global Weather Experiment (GWE) in January 1979. They were: 1) cloud ...