contributor author | Edlich, Roy M. | |
contributor author | Wolf, Daniel E. | |
contributor author | Carlson, Christopher T. | |
contributor author | Maresca, Joseph W. | |
date accessioned | 2017-06-09T16:03:34Z | |
date available | 2017-06-09T16:03:34Z | |
date copyright | 1981/09/01 | |
date issued | 1981 | |
identifier issn | 0027-0644 | |
identifier other | ams-59956.pdf | |
identifier uri | http://onlinelibrary.yabesh.ir/handle/yetl/4200571 | |
description abstract | Seasat-A scatterometer system (SASS) measurements of wind speed and direction and GOES-2 satellite measurements of cloud motion directions were used to analyze the surface wind field over part of the northern Pacific Ocean for 17 July and 3 October 1978. Surface pressure fields were computed from the nondivergent SASS-derived wind velocity fields using the balance equation and were compared to the National Meteorological Center surface pressure fields. Agreement between the balanced pressure-height fields and National Meteorological Center pressure fields was good. The linear correlation coefficient between the two fields was 0.91 for 17 July, and 0.84 for 3 October 1978. These results indicate that the surface wind and pressure fields of the global oceans (excluding a narrow equatorial zone where the balance equation is invalid) can be determined with acceptable accuracy by using satellite measurements exclusively. | |
publisher | American Meteorological Society | |
title | Oceanic Wind and Balanced Pressure-Height Fields Derived from Satellite Measurements | |
type | Journal Paper | |
journal volume | 109 | |
journal issue | 9 | |
journal title | Monthly Weather Review | |
identifier doi | 10.1175/1520-0493(1981)109<2009:OWABPH>2.0.CO;2 | |
journal fristpage | 2009 | |
journal lastpage | 2016 | |
tree | Monthly Weather Review:;1981:;volume( 109 ):;issue: 009 | |
contenttype | Fulltext | |