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The measurement of the winds near the ocean surface with a radiometer-scatterometer on skylab
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Greenwood, C. Cardone, V. J. Moore, R. K. Young, J. D. Fung, A. K. Greenwood, J. A. Salfi, R. Pierson, W. J. Chan, H. L. |
| Copyright Year | 1976 |
| Description | The author has identified the following significant results. There were a total of twenty-six passes in the ZLV mode that yielded useful data. Six were in the in-track noncontiguous mode; all others were in the cross-track noncontiguous mode. The wind speed and direction, as effectively determined in a neutral atmosphere at 19.5 m above the sea surface, were found for each cell scanned by S193. It is shown how the passive microwave measurements were used both to compute the attenuation of the radar beam and to determine those cells where the backscatter measurement was suspect. Given the direction of the wind from some independent source, with the typical accuracy of measurement by available meteorological methods, a backscatter measurement at a nadir angle of 50, 43, or 32 deg can be used to compute the speed of the wind averaged over the illuminated area. |
| File Size | 55479255 |
| Page Count | 652 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19760011520 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t6j14ts7w |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1976-01-21 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Earth Resources And Remote Sensing Scatterometers Radiometers Tropical Regions Storms Meteorology Backscattering Erep Skylab Program Ocean Surface Wind Meteorology Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |
