TY - GEN
T1 - Application of a SAR image archive to climatological analysis of coastal wind storms
AU - Loescher, Kenneth
AU - Young, George
AU - Winstead, Nathaniel
AU - Colle, Brian
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - The use of high-resolution all-weather surface wind field mapping capability of SAR to detect and quantitatively describe the strong mountain-parallel, low-level mesoscale wind maxima is discussed. A five-year study from May 1998 through April 2003 of coastal barrier and hybrid jet occurence in the Gulf of Alaska is presented. The factors such as terrain height, the location of regions of elevated stability and the open ocean wind direction relative to coast appears to have large impact on the favorable locations for barrier jet formation. SAR also revealed that coastal barrier jets in the Gulf of Alaska are more commonly found in the winter months than in summer.
AB - The use of high-resolution all-weather surface wind field mapping capability of SAR to detect and quantitatively describe the strong mountain-parallel, low-level mesoscale wind maxima is discussed. A five-year study from May 1998 through April 2003 of coastal barrier and hybrid jet occurence in the Gulf of Alaska is presented. The factors such as terrain height, the location of regions of elevated stability and the open ocean wind direction relative to coast appears to have large impact on the favorable locations for barrier jet formation. SAR also revealed that coastal barrier jets in the Gulf of Alaska are more commonly found in the winter months than in summer.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/15944385299
U2 - 10.1109/IGARSS.2004.1370041
DO - 10.1109/IGARSS.2004.1370041
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:15944385299
SN - 0780387422
T3 - International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
SP - 4127
EP - 4130
BT - 2004 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2004 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings, IGARSS 2004
Y2 - 20 September 2004 through 24 September 2004
ER -