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Statistics on Vertical Wind Shear over Oceans
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
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 ...
A Comparison of Three Satellite-Based Methods for Estimating Surface Winds over Oceans
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
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 ...