Gridded surface wind fields from Metop/ASCAT measurements

A Bentamy, DC Fillon - International journal of remote sensing, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
This article deals with the calculation and validation of daily surface wind vector fields from
wind speed and direction observations derived from Advanced SCATterometer (ASCAT) …

NASA scatterometer provides global ocean‐surface wind fields with more structures than numerical weather prediction

WT Liu, W Tang, PS Polito - Geophysical Research Letters, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
The major differences between monthly‐mean ocean‐surface wind fields derived from the
observations of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Scatterometer …

Case analysis of a role of ENSO in regulating the generation of westerly wind bursts in the western equatorial Pacific

L Yu, RA Weller, WT Liu - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
This study speculates that the low‐frequency ENSO might have a regulating effect on the
activity of episodic westerly wind bursts (WWB) in the western equatorial Pacific (WEP) …

[HTML][HTML] QuikSCAT satellite comparisons with nearshore buoy wind data off the US west coast

MH Pickett, W Tang, LK Rosenfeld… - Journal of Atmospheric …, 2003 - journals.ametsoc.org
Beardsley, RC, Dorman CE, Friehe CA, Rosenfeld LK, and Winant CD, 1987: Local
atmospheric forcing during the Coastal Ocean Dynamics Experiment 1. A description of the …

Short-term variability of phytoplankton blooms associated with a cold eddy in the northwestern Arabian Sea

DL Tang, H Kawamura, AJ Luis - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2002 - Elsevier
The northern Arabian Sea is a semienclosed sea with high primary productivity and a
complicated flow pattern consisting of several eddies. This paper reports on phytoplankton …

Anomalous tropical ocean circulation associated with La Niña Modoki

T Shinoda, HE Hurlburt… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
El Niño Modoki is a variant of El Niño characterized by warming around the dateline flanked
by anomalous cooling in the east and west. However, the opposite phase (La Niña Modoki) …

[HTML][HTML] Basin resonances in the equatorial Indian Ocean

W Han, JP McCreary, Y Masumoto… - Journal of Physical …, 2011 - journals.ametsoc.org
Basin Resonances in the Equatorial Indian Ocean in: Journal of Physical Oceanography
Volume 41 Issue 6 (2011) Jump to Content Jump to Main Navigation Logo Logo Logo Logo …

The low‐level circulation of the North American Monsoon as revealed by QuikSCAT

S Bordoni, PE Ciesielski, RH Johnson… - Geophysical …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Five years (1999–2003) of near‐surface QuikSCAT ocean winds over the Gulf of California
and northeast Pacific Ocean are used to characterize the changes in the low‐level …

Spacebased observations of the seasonal changes of South Asian monsoons and oceanic responses

WT Liu, X Xie - Geophysical Research Letters, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
The seasonal changes of monsoons in the South China Sea and the Arabian Sea are
compared, using observations by spaceborne microwave scatterometers and radiometers …

[HTML][HTML] Statistical characterization of zonal and meridional ocean wind stress

ST Gille - Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 2005 - journals.ametsoc.org
Liu, WT, and Tang W., 1996: Equivalent neutral wind. JPL Publication 96–17, Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, 8 pp.[Available online at http://airsea-www. jpl. nasa …