Verification Procedures for the SEASAT Measurements of the Vector Wind with the SASS,

Abstract

Various relationships between the friction velocity and the roughness length in boundary layer models are studied in terms of the verification of the SASS on SEASAT. It is shown that verification against a measured wind at a known anemometer height is preferable to verification against a theoretical value of the friction velocity. The effect of the different models is small when they are used to refer all measured winds to one elevation. A model is proposed that has the features of two quite different models and the height of the anemometer for vertification purposes is recommended to be 19.5 meters. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA073644

Entities

People

  • Willard J. Pierson

Organizations

  • City University of New York

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Atmospheric Sciences
  • Backscattering
  • Boundary Layer
  • Capillary Waves
  • Elevation
  • Equations
  • Flow
  • Gravity Waves
  • Inertial Navigation
  • Jet Propulsion
  • Layers
  • Measurement
  • Navigation
  • New York
  • Waves
  • Wind
  • Wind Stress

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  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Geodesy