Remotely sensed winds and wind stresses for marine forecasting and ocean modeling

MA Bourassa, T Meissner, I Cerovecki… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019‏ - frontiersin.org
Strengths and weakness of remotely sensed winds are discussed, along with the current
capabilities for remotely sensing winds and stress. Future missions are briefly mentioned …

ESA's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity mission: From science to operational applications

S Mecklenburg, M Drusch, L Kaleschke… - Remote Sensing of …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission, launched in November
2009, is the European Space Agency's (ESA) second Earth Explorer Opportunity mission …

Ocean currents show global intensification of weak tropical cyclones

G Wang, L Wu, W Mei, SP **e - Nature, 2022‏ - nature.com
Abstract Theory and numerical modelling suggest that tropical cyclones (TCs) will
strengthen with rising ocean temperatures. Even though models have reached broad …

TropFlux: Air-sea fluxes for the global tropical oceans—Description and evaluation

B Praveen Kumar, J Vialard, M Lengaigne, VSN Murty… - Climate dynamics, 2012‏ - Springer
In this paper, we evaluate several timely, daily air-sea heat flux products (NCEP, NCEP2,
ERA-Interim and OAFlux/ISCCP) against observations and present the newly developed …

In-orbit performance of the constellation of CYGNSS hurricane satellites

C Ruf, S Asharaf, R Balasubramaniam… - Bulletin of the …, 2019‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract The NASA Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) constellation of
eight satellites was successfully launched into low Earth orbit on 15 December 2016. Each …

Development and evaluation of a multi-year fractional surface water data set derived from active/passive microwave remote sensing data

R Schroeder, KC McDonald, BD Chapman, K Jensen… - Remote Sensing, 2015‏ - mdpi.com
The sensitivity of Earth's wetlands to observed shifts in global precipitation and temperature
patterns and their ability to produce large quantities of methane gas are key global change …

Scatterometer-based assessment of 10-m wind analyses from the operational ECMWF and NCEP numerical weather prediction models

DB Chelton, MH Freilich - Monthly Weather Review, 2005‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
Wind measurements by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
scatterometer (NSCAT) and the SeaWinds scatterometer on the NASA QuikSCAT satellite …

Monitoring ocean currents during the passage of Typhoon Muifa using optical-fiber distributed acoustic sensing

J Lin, S Fang, R He, Q Tang, F Qu, B Wang… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
In situ observations under typhoon conditions are sparse and limited. Distributed acoustic
sensing (DAS) is an emerging technology that uses submarine optical-fiber (OF) cables to …

High-latitude ocean and sea ice surface fluxes: Challenges for climate research

MA Bourassa, ST Gille, C Bitz… - Bulletin of the …, 2013‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
Polar regions have great sensitivity to climate forcing; however, understanding of the
physical processes coupling the atmosphere and ocean in these regions is relatively poor …

Estimating hurricane wind structure in the absence of aircraft reconnaissance

JP Kossin, JA Knaff, HI Berger… - Weather and …, 2007‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
New objective methods are introduced that use readily available data to estimate various
aspects of the two-dimensional surface wind field structure in hurricanes. The methods …