HR: 09:30h
AN: SF51A-07    [Abstracts]
TI: A Web-Based Climatology of Global Ocean Winds
AU: * Risien, C M
EM: crisien@coas.oregonstate.edu
AF: College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University 104 COAS Administration Building, Corvallis, OR 97331 United States
AU: Chelton, D B
EM: chelton@coas.oregonstate.edu
AF: College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University 104 COAS Administration Building, Corvallis, OR 97331 United States
AU: Hodges, M K
EM: marc.hodges@noaa.gov
AF: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, Office of Response and Restoration 7600 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115 United States
AB: A climatology of winds over the global ocean on a 0.5ø x 0.5ø grid is under development based on five-years of measurements from the SeaWinds scatterometer. The SeaWinds instrument was launched on 19 June 1999 onboard the QuikSCAT satellite. SeaWinds is an active microwave radar that, using electromagnetic backscatter from the wind roughened ocean surface, measures vector winds with an accuracy equivalent to well-calibrated buoy observations. This five-year climatology is a web-based interactive atlas from which users can retrieve wind statistics, both in tabular and graphic form, for any particular region of interest. The global coverage of the scatterometer data provides valuable information about the wind statistics in the many regions of the world ocean that are sparsely sampled by ships and buoys. One of the anticipated uses of this climatology will be presented via a case study of the NOAA/HAZMAT response to a 2001 oil spill that resulted from the grounding of the tanker "Jessica" at the entrance to Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, in Wreck Bay, on San Crist¢bal island, Gal pagos.
UR: http://numbat.coas.oregonstate.edu/cogow/
DE: 3360 Remote sensing
DE: 3309 Climatology (1620)
DE: 0845 Instructional tools
SC: Special Focus: Advances in Data Acquisition, Management, Analysis and Display [SF]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting