Abstract: A good assessment of the information content of scatterometer winds is particularly important in order to assimilate them in weather analysis. Besides retrieval problems in cases of a confused sea state, a particularly ...

Abstract: Scatterometers estimate the relative atmosphere?ocean motion at spatially high resolution and provide accurate inertial-scale ocean wind forcing information, which is crucial for many ocean, atmosphere, and climate ...

Abstract: In this paper the impact of Seasat scatterometer winds in numerical weather prediction (NWP) is discussed with the help of the results of some cases studied. The development of the Queen Elizabeth II (QE II) storm from ...

Abstract: This article explores the use of the ensemble Kalman filter technique to improve the accuracy of North Sea wave field analyses. A nonhydrostatic convective-permitting mesoscale model was used to provide high-resolution ...

Abstract: he Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT) on the Meteorological Operational (MetOp) series of satellites is designed to provide data for the retrieval of ocean wind fields. Three transponders were used to give an absolute calibration ...