| contributor author | Hasler, A. F. | |
| contributor author | Skillman, W. C. | |
| contributor author | Shenk, W. E. | |
| contributor author | Steranka, J. | |
| date accessioned | 2017-06-09T17:40:15Z | |
| date available | 2017-06-09T17:40:15Z | |
| date copyright | 1979/11/01 | |
| date issued | 1979 | |
| identifier issn | 0021-8952 | |
| identifier other | ams-9806.pdf | |
| identifier uri | http://onlinelibrary.yabesh.ir/handle/yetl/4233335 | |
| description 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 cumulus cloud motions Vcloud are very good estimators of the cloud-base wind VCBW (900?950 mb) for trade wind and subtropical high regions. The average magnitude of the vector differences between the cloud motion and the cloud-base wind ranged from 0.9 to 1.7 m s?1 [ 0.9 m s?1 ≤ | Vcloud?VCBW| ≤1.7 m s?1. For cumulus clouds near frontal regions, the cloud motion agreed best with the mean cloud layer wind VMCLW [|Vcloud?VMCLW|. For a very limited sample, cirrus cloud motions also most closely followed the mean wind in the cloud layer [|Vcloud?VMCLW| = 1.7 m s?1]. | |
| publisher | American Meteorological Society | |
| title | In Situ Aircraft Verification of the Quality of Satellite Cloud Winds over Oceanic Regions | |
| type | Journal Paper | |
| journal volume | 18 | |
| journal issue | 11 | |
| journal title | Journal of Applied Meteorology | |
| identifier doi | 10.1175/1520-0450(1979)018<1481:SAVOTQ>2.0.CO;2 | |
| journal fristpage | 1481 | |
| journal lastpage | 1489 | |
| tree | Journal of Applied Meteorology:;1979:;volume( 018 ):;issue: 011 | |
| contenttype | Fulltext | |