Study of mesoscale atmospheric phenomena over the ocean by ERS SAR and numerical models

authored by

Werner Alpers, Ulrike Pahl, Günter Gross, Gerd Müller, Burghard Brümmer

Abstract

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images acquired over Mediterranean coastal waters and over the Greenland Sea from the First European Remote Sensing satellite ERS-1 showing sea surface manifestations of katabatic wind fields and atmosheric boundary layer rolls are analyzed. By using the CMOD4 wind scatterometer model, the sea surface wind speed associated with these atmospheric phenomena is determined. In both cases the wind speed at the sea surface simulated by atmospheric models and derived from the ERS-1 SAR images show reasonably good agreement.

Organisation(s)

Institute of Meteorology and Climatology

External Organisation(s)

Universität Hamburg

Type

Conference contribution

Volume

414

Pages

1017-1022

No. of pages

6

Publication date

1997

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Aerospace Engineering, Space and Planetary Science