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contributor authorHasler, A. F.
contributor authorSkillman, W. C.
contributor authorShenk, W. E.
contributor authorSteranka, J.
date accessioned2017-06-09T17:40:15Z
date available2017-06-09T17:40:15Z
date copyright1979/11/01
date issued1979
identifier issn0021-8952
identifier otherams-9806.pdf
identifier urihttp://onlinelibrary.yabesh.ir/handle/yetl/4233335
description abstractA 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].
publisherAmerican Meteorological Society
titleIn Situ Aircraft Verification of the Quality of Satellite Cloud Winds over Oceanic Regions
typeJournal Paper
journal volume18
journal issue11
journal titleJournal of Applied Meteorology
identifier doi10.1175/1520-0450(1979)018<1481:SAVOTQ>2.0.CO;2
journal fristpage1481
journal lastpage1489
treeJournal of Applied Meteorology:;1979:;volume( 018 ):;issue: 011
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