ON HIGH RESOLUTION COASTAL WINDS

High-resolution (12.5 km cells) ASCAT winds for tropical cyclone Bertha on 10 July 2008
Ad Stoffelen, Marcos Portabella, Anton Verhoef, Jur Vogelzang

The Advanced scatterometer, ASCAT, on MetOp-A was launched on 19 October 2006 as the third wind scatterometer currently in space joining up with the ERS-2 and the SeaWinds scatterometers. Scatterometers measure the radar backscatter from windgenerated cm-size gravity-capillary waves and provide high-resolution wind vector fields over the sea with high quality. In this paper we show progress in high resolution processing and its verification, and in processing closer to the coast.

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Ad Stoffelen, Marcos Portabella, Anton Verhoef, Jur Vogelzang. ON HIGH RESOLUTION COASTAL WINDS
Conference: EuroGOOS, Organisation: EuroGOOS, Place: Exeter, UK, Year: 2008, First page: 0, Last page: 0

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