Sentences with phrase «in scatterometer»
The European Remote - Sensing Satellites (ERS - 1 and ERS - 2), launched by the European Space Agency respectively on July 17, 1991 and April 21, 1995, carry the first satellite - borne C - band (5.3 GHz) Active Microwave Instrument (AMI) capable of measuring, in scatterometer mode, surface wind speeds and directions over the oceans.
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The scatterometer provides 15 times more information about the wind than ships in the northern hemisphere and 100 times more in the southern hemisphere.
The latest results show that in the northern hemisphere and the tropics, the data from the scatterometer makes no difference to the accuracy of the weather forecasts.
Liu, W. T., X. Xie, and W. Tang, 2010: Scatterometer's unique capability in measuring ocean surface stress.
In addition ESA and EUMETSAT are jointly planning a series of operational C - band scatterometers for flight beyond the year 2001.
New gridded daily wind fields from Metop / ASCAT scatterometer retrievals are produced in near real - time over global ocean with a spatial resolution of 0.25 °.
The SeaWinds on QuikSCAT mission is a «quick recovery» mission to fill the gap created by the loss of data from the NASA Scatterometer (NSCAT), when the satellite it was flying on lost power in June 1997.
Both consist of a dedicated free - flyer scatterometer mission at the nearest possible opportunity in order to avoid, or at least minimize, a gap in the ocean surface vector winds CDR.
QuikSCAT measurements are also limited to a spatial resolution of 12.5 km and are not routinely made closer than about 30 km from land.26 Many in the microwave breakout group argued that high priority should be given to a sustained, more capable, next - generation scatterometer program that can meet these requirements while at the same time continuing the ocean surface vector winds CDR established by QuikSCAT.
The second scenario, preferred by many participants, consists of a next - generation synthetic - aperture - radar - based scatterometer mission referred to in the Earth science decadal survey as XOVWM.
India and China plan to launch scatterometers in 2008 and 2010, respectively.