Publication Date:
2011-08-24
Description:
A novel and unique ocean-surface wind data-set has been derived by combining the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Special Sensor Microwave Imager data with additional conventional data. The variational analysis used generates a gridded surface wind analysis that minimizes an objective function measuring the misfit of the analysis to the background, the data, and certain a priori constraints. In the present case, the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts surface-wind analysis is used as the background.
Keywords:
METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY
Type:
EOS (ISSN 0096-3941); 72; 201
Format:
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