The winds and currents mission concept
The winds and currents mission concept
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2019-07-24
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Rodríguez, Ernesto
Bourassa, Mark A.
Chelton, Dudley B.
Farrar, J. Thomas
Long, David
Perkovic-Martin, Dragana
Samelson, Roger M.
Bourassa, Mark A.
Chelton, Dudley B.
Farrar, J. Thomas
Long, David
Perkovic-Martin, Dragana
Samelson, Roger M.
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10.3389/fmars.2019.00438
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Surface currents
Surface winds
Doppler
Scatterometer
Air-sea interaction
Sea ice
Relative vorticity
Surface winds
Doppler
Scatterometer
Air-sea interaction
Sea ice
Relative vorticity
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The Winds and Currents Mission (WaCM) is a proposed approach to meet the need identified by the NRC Decadal Survey for the simultaneous measurements of ocean vector winds and currents. WaCM features a Ka-band pencil-beam Doppler scatterometer able to map ocean winds and currents globally. We review the principles behind the WaCM measurement and the requirements driving the mission. We then present an overview of the WaCM observatory and tie its capabilities to other OceanObs reviews and measurement approaches.
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© The Author(s), 2019. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Rodriguez, E., Bourassa, M., Chelton, D., Farrar, J. T., Long, D., Perkovic-Martin, D., & Samelson, R. The winds and currents mission concept. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6, (2019): 438, doi:10.3389/fmars.2019.00438.
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Rodriguez, E., Bourassa, M., Chelton, D., Farrar, J. T., Long, D., Perkovic-Martin, D., & Samelson, R. (2019). The winds and currents mission concept. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6, 438.
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