Wind Retrieval using Marine Radars

Abstract

Within the High Resolution Air-Sea Interaction (HiRes) DRI the NATO Undersea Research Center (NURC) wants to develop and validate methodologies to retrieve wind field parameters from X-band marine radar. The main parameters NURC will focus on are the mean surface wind vector as well as the wind gusts in vicinity of the measurement platform (within 2000 m). In contrast to traditional wind measurements marine radar retrieved winds are not influenced by the blockage and shadowing of the platform itself. Therefore, we expect marine radars to be an ideal solution to measure winds operationally from large platforms and ships. As the wind information is an important parameter in the marine radar wave measurement and the wave modelling, we anticipate our wind information will help to improve the measuring and modelling activities of phase-resolved surface wave fields undertaken within HiRes.

Open PDF

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2011
Accession Number
ADA572610

Entities

People

  • Jochen Horstmann

Organizations

  • Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Algorithms
  • Ambiguity
  • Backscattering
  • Calibration
  • Directional
  • Dispersion Relations
  • Dispersions
  • Flow
  • Flow Fields
  • Measurement
  • Radar
  • Radar Cross Sections
  • Radar Images
  • Surface Waves
  • Waves
  • Wind Direction

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Coastal Oceanography
  • Electromagnetic Wave Scattering and Antenna Radiation Engineering
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers