HR: 09:45h
AN: OS21D-08    [Abstracts]
TI: Pressure Fields From Space
AU: * Brown, R A
EM: rabrown@atmos.washington.edu
AF: University of Washington, Dept. Atmospheric Sciences Box 351640, Seattle, WA 98195
AU: Patoux, J
EM: jerome@atmos.washington.edu
AF: University of Washington, Dept. Atmospheric Sciences Box 351640, Seattle, WA 98195
AB: The ability to extract oceanic surface pressure maps from satellite scatterometer data has been described in a series of papers since the '80s. The analysis of storms and fronts provides unprecedented details. The technique has been recently improved for the purpose of providing near real-time global surface pressures for NCEP forecasters. The fields have proved more valuable to the forecasters than the raw QuikScat winds while providing more valuable detail in the pressure fields than ever before.
DE: 0312 Air/sea constituent fluxes (3339, 4504)
DE: 3307 Boundary layer processes
DE: 4262 Ocean observing systems
DE: 4445 Nonlinear differential equations
SC: Ocean Sciences [OS]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005