Value added products for SeaWinds on QuikSCAT

Author

Spencer, Michael W. ; Daffer, William H.

Author_Institution

Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA

Volume

4

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

1439

Abstract

The SeaWinds scatterometer generates near real-time surface wind data over the global oceans. In order to make this data more accessible to non-governmental organization and individuals, the SeaWinds Value-Added Product (VAP) effort was initiated. Daily wind data is available to the public via the VAP website. Various data visualization techniques, such as merger with the more familiar geosynchronous cloud images and vector field animation, have been employed to make the SeaWinds data more accessible to a variety of users

Keywords

atmospheric techniques; education; geophysical signal processing; meteorological radar; oceanographic techniques; remote sensing by radar; spaceborne radar; teaching; wind; QuikSCAT; SeaWinds; VAP; Value-Added Product; data visualization; education; marine atmosphere; meteorology; microwave radiometry; ocean; radar remote sensing; radar scatterometry; satellite remote sensing; sea surface; spaceborne radar; surface wind; teaching; value added product; wind; Animation; Clouds; Data visualization; Instruments; Meteorology; Radar measurements; Spaceborne radar; Weather forecasting; Web pages; Wind speed;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2000. Proceedings. IGARSS 2000. IEEE 2000 International

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6359-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2000.857232

Filename

857232