Sentences with word «scatterometer»

The OSI SAF team focuses on scatterometer winds (and soon microwave winds), Sea Surface Temperature (SST) and sea Ice Surface Temperature (IST), radiative fluxes: Downward Longwave Irradiance (DLI) and Surface Solar Irradiance (SSI), sea ice concentration, edge, type, emissivity, drift.

Continuous scatterometer data series exist since 1991 and are processed into climate data records, providing links to the ESA CCI or ERA - CLIM.

Furthermore, the number of extreme synoptic events occurring each summer over the Bay of Bengal is estimated from satellite scatterometers and exhibits no statistically significant trend over the last three decades.

You can find material on scatterometer winds products and software and their use on the Scatterometry Training page.

Last September, the Japanese government launched the Advanced Earth Observing Satellite, which included among its instruments the NASA Scatterometer, or NSCAT.

Gridded daily wind vector and wind stress fields, estimated over global ocean from QuikSCAT scatterometer (referred as DQSCAT) data, have been updated.

A very large, broad, easterly wave is located just south of the Cape Verde islands, with a disorganized low - mid-level circulation at about 12N 25W (easy to spot from the 07:25 Z WindSat and 10:55 Z ASCAT microwave scatterometer overpasses).

These changes in available water were detected in part with NASA satellites including the NASA / JAXA Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, NASA's Quick Scatterometer (QuikScat), and NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, a joint mission with the German Aerospace Center.

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.

One of the new Earth science experiments Dragon has delivered is the ISS - Rapid Scatterometer to be installed outside the Columbus laboratory.

In addition ESA and EUMETSAT are jointly planning a series of operational C - band scatterometers for flight beyond the year 2001.

This new product available at CERSAT consists of weekly and monthly gridded fields of CO2 exchange coefficients derived from scatterometer ocean surface winds and sea surface temperature, using severa...

For several years, the CERSAT has been providing sea ice data and maps from various scatterometers (microwave radar) and radiometers onboard earth observation satellites (ERS - 1, ERS - 2, ADEOS - 1, QuikSC...

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.

The fourth SpaceX cargo mission to the International Space Station (ISS) under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services contract, carrying the ISS - RapidScat scatterometer instrument designed and built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, is scheduled to launch Saturday, Sept. 20, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

The storm - chasing aircraft's new scatterometer — a microwave radar sensor that measures the reflection (or scattering effect) produced while scanning the surface of the Earth — can see inside the storm with high resolution, something akin to a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan.

Comparison of sea - ice extent and ice - edge location estimates from passive microwave and enhanced - resolution scatterometer data.

At right a sequence of fields from the ERS - 1 scatterometer shows theevolution of wind speeds and directions over period of five days.

The European Space Agency ERS - 1 C - band VV - polarization instrument (AMI) offers the unique ability to combine interlaced scatterometer and SAR wave modes.

Scatterometer systems are becoming more and more operational and better adapted to storm observation.

The team then extrapolated these data over the varying landscape to produce a seamless map, using NASA imagery from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft, the QuikScat scatterometer satellite and the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission.

Algorithms to process the three - beam scatterometer data have been developed at Institut Franais de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER).

2DVAR performs an incremental analysis based on the ambiguous scatterometer wind vector solutions and a model forecast, and selects the most likely solution.

Individual ocean surface element for which wind vector is retrieved from scatterometer backscatter measurements.

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 researchers compared the GNSS - R satellite measurements with data from other sources, including tropical cyclone best track data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Centers for Environmental Information; two climate reanalysis products; and a spaceborne scatterometer, a tool that uses microwave radar to measure winds near the surface of the ocean.

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.

Sea Ice Distribution in May 2009 versus 2008 derived from QuikSCAT scatterometer: perennial ice (white), mixed ice (aqua), seasonal ice (teal).

The improved predictions are largely due to one particular instrument aboard ERS - 1, the microwave scatterometer, which deduces the speed of the wind at sea level by measuring the roughness of the sea's surface.

A comparison of surface wind data from three NCAR Integrated Sounding System (ISS) stations and the Quick Scatterometer (QuikSCAT) to the model reveals a low bias in the strength of the Gulf of California low - level jet, even at high resolution.

Radar scatterometer on board QuickSCAT to retrieve Sea surface wind vector.

Science payloads include the ISS - Rapid Scatterometer to monitor ocean surface wind speed and direction; new biomedical hardware that will help facilitate prolonged biological studies of rodents in microgravity; and a study of a small flowering plant related to cabbage that allows scientists to study plant growth and adaptations in space.

The other Airbus - built instrument, the «Advanced Scatterometer» (ASCAT) is an active radar instrument which measures wind speed and direction over the open sea.

The OSI SAF team focuses on scatterometer winds (and soon microwave winds), Sea Surface Temperature (SST) and sea Ice Surface Temperature (IST), radiative fluxes: Solar Surface Irradiance (SSI) and Downward Longwave Irradiance (DLI), sea ice concentration, edge, type, emissivity, drift.

For several years the CERSAT has been providing sea ice maps derived from various scatterometers (microwave radar) on board earth observation satellites (ERS - 1, ERS - 2, ADEOS - 1 or QuikSCAT).

Raw data collected from altimeters have been re-processed and collated with wind speed data from scatterometers and sea level measurements from tide gauges, to show the spatial structure of each storm.

The scatterometer provides 15 times more information about the wind than ships in the northern hemisphere and 100 times more in the southern hemisphere.