Estimating Winds and Waves From SAR Under Typhoon Conditions

Abstract

The long-term goal of this program is to be able to utilize SAR imagery to improve predictions of storm tracks and storm strength at landfall (we use storms as stand-in for hurricanes, typhoons, etc.). This will be done with a system that uses SAR imagery of the storm at sea to estimate wind and wave conditions within the storm, then utilizes these estimates to re-set storm model parameters so that the predicted winds/waves at the time of the SAR imagery match the actual winds/waves. The goal is that the model predictions derived with the re-set parameters will be improved over those that do not have the SAR estimates.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2008
Accession Number
ADA533995

Entities

People

  • Christopher Wackerman

Organizations

  • General Dynamics

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Bragg Scattering
  • C Band
  • Coastal Regions
  • Gaussian Distributions
  • Hurricanes
  • Information Operations
  • Information Systems
  • Models
  • Scale Models
  • Scattering
  • Spectra
  • Statistics
  • Storms
  • Transfer Functions
  • Waves
  • Wind
  • Wind Direction

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Radar Systems Engineering.