QUIKSCAT


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QUIKSCATQuick Scatterometer (NASA)
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Lee, "Offshore wind resource assessment around korean peninsula by using QuikSCAT satellite data," Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences, vol.
On the Wind Energy Resource and Its Trend in the East China Sea
Assimilating ambiguous QuikScat scatterometer observations in HIRLAM 3-D-Var at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute.
Impact of the ASCAT scatterometer winds on the quality of HIRLAM analysis in case of severe storms/Skatteromeetri ASCAT tuuleandmete assimileerimise moju HIRLAM-i analuusi kvaliteedile tugevate tormide puhul
The wind field used to drive the ocean circulation in this subregion was derived from the 25 km resolution QuikSCAT wind field instead of the NCEP/NCAR reanalysis from year 2000 to year 2006.
Ocean circulation and water mass characteristics around the Galapagos archipelago simulated by a multiscale nested ocean circulation model
Employing algorithms and sensory data from the QuikSCAT satellite, positioned approximately 500 miles above Earth, Forde is able to view wind patterns and conditions on the ocean's surface, detecting environments favorable for hurricane development.
A perfect storm: Evan Forde helps make sense of climate change
The satellite maps consist of nearly a decade's worth of data from QuikSCAT which reveals hotspots for high wind.
Satellites aid windfarm planning: mapping from outer space identifies the best spots in which to locate offshore windfarms
(29) The SeaWinds sensor carried on QuikScat uses specialized radar to measure near-surface wind speed and direction.
Legal challenges and market rewards to the use and acceptance of remote sensing and digital information as evidence
The data is derived through cross-calibration and assimilation of ocean surface wind data from Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I), Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), Microwave Imager (TMI), Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-Earth Observing System (AMSR-E), SeaWinds on Quick Scatterometer (QuikSCAT), and SeaWinds on Advanced Earth Observing Satellite 2 (ADEOS-II).
Recent Decadal Trend in the North Atlantic Wind Energy Resources
In addition to CloudSat, she serves as the mission operations manager for the QuikSCAT satellite, also built by Ball for NASA.
United States : Ball Aerospace's Marda Barthuli Receives NASA Exceptional Public Service Medal
Coastal upwelling and mesoscale winds are studied using daily 25 km NOAA SST data [47], 25 km J-OFURO reanalysis [48], satellite scatterometer measurements from QuikSCAT and ASCAT, and 4 km Meteosat infrared imagery.
Environmental forcing of red tides in the Southern Benguela
(2009) provided a five-year record (fall 2003 to spring 2008) of sea ice thickness and volume over the Arctic Ocean derived from Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) campaigns in combination with QuikScat data showing the distribution of multi-year and first-year sea ice across the Northern Hemisphere.
Summer sea ice concentration, motion, and thickness near areas of proposed offshore oil and gas development in the Canadian Beaufort Sea--2009
Mean wind fields (MWF product)-User Manual-Volume 2: QuikSCAT. C2-MUT-W-04-IF, CERSAT, Plouzane, 47 pp.
Caracterizacion hidrografica del estuario del rio Valdivia, centro-sur de Chile
Calibrating seawinds and QuikSCAT scatterometers using natural land targets.
Prediciendo la distribucion de Polylepis: bosques Andinos vulnerables y cada vez mas importantes
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