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Title
Foundations for innovative application of airborne radars [electronic resource] : measuring the water surface backscattering signature and wind / Alexey Nekrasov.
ISBN
9783319006215 electronic book
3319006215 electronic book
9783319006208
1306165393
9781306165396
Published
Cham : Springer, 2014.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xi, 104 pages) : illustrations.
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-319-00621-5 doi
Call Number
QC933
Dewey Decimal Classification
551.51/80285
Summary
The wind vector -- wind speed and direction -- is a main meteorological quantity and relevant for air-sea exchange processes. This book explores the use of several airborne microwave instruments, some of which are part of standard aircraft equipment, in determining the local wind vector over water. This is worthwhile as local wind information is usually only available at measurements sites like weather stations and airports, and global wind information from satellites has very coarse resolution and poor temporal coverage at most a few times daily. In his book, Nekrasov uses known results in a novel way and gives explicit and application-oriented descriptions how to additionally retrieve local wind information from standard airborne microwave instruments. The results presented here are highly valuable for flight operation above the sea (e.g., search-and-rescue) but also for complementing other measurements of atmospheric or oceanic parameters during research flights.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 14, 2013).
Series
SpringerBriefs in earth sciences.
Water surface backscattering and wind retrieval
FM-CW demonstrator system as an instrument for measuring the sea surface backscattering signature and wind
Doppler navigation system application for measuring the backscattering signature and wind over water
Measuring the water surface backscattering signature and wind by means of the airborne weather radar
Water-surface wind retrieval using the airborne radar altimeter
Near-nadir wind estimation over water with the airborne precipitation radar.
