Operational Use and Impact of Satellite Remotely Sensed Ocean Surface Vector Winds in the Marine Warning and Forecasting Environment

In 2002, a National Oceanographic Partnership Program project was initiated with the ambitious objective of maximizing the use of currently and soon-to-be-available satellite ocean surface vector wind (OSVW) data, such as NASA's QuikSCAT scatterometer, in the operational weather forecasting and...

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Main Authors: Paul S. Chang, Zorana Jelenak, Joseph M. Sienkiewicz, Richard Knabb, Michael J. Brennan, David G. Long, Mark Freeberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Oceanography Society 2009-06-01
Series:Oceanography
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Online Access:http://tos.org/oceanography/archive/22-2_chang.pdf