Determination of tropical cyclone surface pressure and winds from satellite microwave data

Author:: Kidder, S. Q.
Published:: Apr 1, 1979.
Physical Description:: 1 electronic document

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Summary:

An approach to the problem of deducing wind speed and pressure around tropical cyclones is presented. The technique, called the Surface Wind Inference from Microwave data (SWIM technique, uses satellites microwave sounder data to measure upper tropospheric temperature anomalies which may then be related to surface pressure anomalies through the hydrostatic and radiative transfer equations. Surface pressure gradients outside of the radius of maximum wind are estimated for the first time. Future instruments may be able to estimate central pressure with + or - 0/1 kPa accuracy.

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METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY

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NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.

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Document ID: 19790015414.
Accession ID: 79N23585.
CSU-ATSP-307.
NASA-CR-158600.

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