Sentences with phrase «detect ocean wind»

The military uses the microwave information to detect ocean wind speeds to feed into weather models, among other uses, but the data happen to be nearly perfect for sensing sea ice, says Walt Meier, a sea - ice specialist with the NSIDC.

Not exact matches

This instruments initially designed for measuring winds at the ocean surface allow to detect both the edge of the ice pack and the nature of the ice which it is made of (first - year, old ice,...).
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