High-Resolution Wind Field Mapping in Support of the ONR Coupled Boundary Layer Air-Sea Transfer (CBLAST) Program

Abstract

The long-term goal of this research effort is to investigate the possibility of obtaining quantitative information about the near-surface wind field and perhaps other parameters that characterize the Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer (MABL) from an analysis of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery. Because of its potential for yielding such information in the form of high-resolution imagery, this application of SAR, especially in coastal waters, would represent a significant advance over most scatterometer and passive microwave sensors that yield only coarse-resolution estimates of the wind field.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2003
Accession Number
ADA629103

Entities

People

  • Donald R. Thompson
  • Francis M. Monaldo
  • Nathaniel S. Winstead

Organizations

  • Johns Hopkins University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Atmospheric Sciences
  • Boundaries
  • Boundary Layer
  • Detectors
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • High Resolution
  • Layers
  • Marine Meteorology
  • Microwave Detectors
  • Radar
  • Remote Sensing
  • Scattering
  • Scatterometers
  • Standards
  • Surface Temperature
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar
  • Weather Forecasting

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Radar Systems Engineering.