Surface winds refer to the wind speed and direction measured from the surface of Earth’s land or ocean. By studying these winds, scientists can learn more about ocean processes and improve predictions of extreme weather. NASA’s available data products useful to the study of surface winds include average wind speed and direction, sea level pressure, and surface stress.
The SeaWinds instrument, which flew on NASA's Quick Scatterometer (QuikSCAT) satellite and NASA/JAXA's ADEOS-II, was a A Ku-band (13.4 GHz) scatterometer featuring a circular dish antenna, which provides pencil-beam radar backscatter measurements. SeaWinds provided all-weather ocean surface wind vector measurements over Earth's ice-free global oceans. The instrument was designed to improve ...
This data set contains a 6-hourly, 0.25 degree resolution, near-global gridded analysis of ocean surface vector winds from the Cross-Calibrated Multi-Platform (CCMP) project, produced by Remote Sensing Systems (RSS). CCMP is a combination of inter-calibrated 10 m ocean surface wind retrievals from multiple types of satellite microwave sensors and a background field from reanalysis. The wind ...
RSS CCMP 6-Hourly 10 Meter Surface Winds Level 4 Version 3.1 - Earthdata
High winds led to increased heat and moisture fluxes into the storm, and frictional convergence associated with the ingestion of higher momentum air aided in providing moisture lift which affected precipitation patterns across the eastern Pacific.
) released the Cross-Calibrated Multi-Platform (CCMP) Winds Level 4 Version 3.1 datasets produced by Remote Sensing Systems (RSS). CCMP produces gridded products that provide a consistent, gap-free time-series of vector winds over the world's oceans from 1993 onward. It combines ocean surface 10m wind retrievals from multiple types of satellite microwave sensors (most of the wind-sensing U.S ...
The Winds instrument was available for flights in year 2015 only. The measurements included in this data set are most useful when paired with the scientific data collected by other CARVE airborne instruments.
The CZCS image shown earlier shows a prominent jet. The image below depicts the interaction of winds, ocean upwelling, and nutrients that cause the Benguela Upwelling Zone to be one of the most productive oceanic regions in the world.