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Biases in wind speed estimation from satellite-based remote sensing
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Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
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December 1, 2002
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Wind speed distributions over the oceans are necessary for applications such as estimation of offshore wind resources and sea spray generation, but are difficult to obtain via in situ methods. Hence, remote sensing tools, which also offer the possibility of describing spatial variability of flow, represent an attractive proposition.
Previous work has demonstrated significant uncertainties regarding the accuracy of wind speeds derived from satellite-borne instrumentation. These issues are largely the result of low signal-tonoise ratios and may be remedied by improvements to the technology and algorithms. We focus on remote retrieval of wind speeds using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and ...