Title :
SAR-derived winds in coastal Alaska waters
Author :
Pichel, William G. ; Li, Xiaofeng ; Friedman, Karen S. ; Clemente-Colón, Pablo ; Beal, Robert ; Monaldo, Frank ; Wackerman, Christopher
Author_Institution :
Office of Res. & Applications, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD
Abstract :
High-resolution winds derived from RADARSAT-1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images have been produced for the waters around Alaska since 1999. Wind speed images show useful details of many meteorological phenomena of interest in weather analysis and forecasting. These include wakes, gap flows, lee waves, atmospheric fronts, cyclones, and barrier jets
Keywords :
atmospheric movements; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; wakes; weather forecasting; wind; AD 1999; RADARSAT-1 SAR-derived wind; atmospheric fronts; barrier jets; coastal Alaska waters; cyclones; gap flow; high-resolution wind speed image; lee waves; meteorology; synthetic aperture radar; wakes; weather analysis/forecasting; Atmospheric waves; Geophysical measurements; Information systems; Physics; Polarization; Radar measurements; Sea measurements; Synthetic aperture radar; Wind forecasting; Wind speed;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2004. IGARSS '04. Proceedings. 2004 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Anchorage, AK
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8742-2
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2004.1368967
