Abstract: An experiment is in progress to verify geostationary satellite derived cloud motion wind estimates by in situ aircraft wind velocity measurements. One or more low-level aircraft equipped with Inertial Navigation Systems ...

Abstract: Distributions of relative vorticity and balanced height are computed from the cloud velocities associated with the cloud structure of an extratropical cyclone over the continental United States during a three-day period ...

Abstract: A 5-year aircraft experiment to verify the quality of satellite cloud winds over oceans using in situ aircraft Inertial Navigation System wind measurements has been completed. The final results show that satellite measured ...

Abstract: The Electrically Scanned Microwave Radiometer (ESMR) on the Nimbus 5 satellite measures the microwave radiation emitted by the earth and the atmosphere in a wavelength band centered at 1.55 cm. The ESMR scans perpendicularly ...