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contributor authorEdlich, Roy M.
contributor authorWolf, Daniel E.
contributor authorCarlson, Christopher T.
contributor authorMaresca, Joseph W.
date accessioned2017-06-09T16:03:34Z
date available2017-06-09T16:03:34Z
date copyright1981/09/01
date issued1981
identifier issn0027-0644
identifier otherams-59956.pdf
identifier urihttp://onlinelibrary.yabesh.ir/handle/yetl/4200571
description abstractSeasat-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.
publisherAmerican Meteorological Society
titleOceanic Wind and Balanced Pressure-Height Fields Derived from Satellite Measurements
typeJournal Paper
journal volume109
journal issue9
journal titleMonthly Weather Review
identifier doi10.1175/1520-0493(1981)109<2009:OWABPH>2.0.CO;2
journal fristpage2009
journal lastpage2016
treeMonthly Weather Review:;1981:;volume( 109 ):;issue: 009
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