Application of a SAR image archive to climatological analysis of coastal wind storms

Kenneth Loescher; George Young; Nathaniel Winstead; Brian Colle

Application of a SAR image archive to climatological analysis of coastal wind storms

Kenneth Loescher, George Young, Nathaniel Winstead, Brian Colle

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages	4127-4130
Number of pages	4
State	Published - Dec 1 2004
Event	2004 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings: Science for Society: Exploring and Managing a Changing Planet. IGARSS 2004 - Anchorage, AK, United States Duration: Sep 20 2004 → Sep 24 2004

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Other	2004 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings: Science for Society: Exploring and Managing a Changing Planet. IGARSS 2004
Country/Territory	United States
City	Anchorage, AK
Period	9/20/04 → 9/24/04

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Computer Science Applications
Earth and Planetary Sciences(all)

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Loescher, K, Young, G, Winstead, N & Colle, B 2004, 'Application of a SAR image archive to climatological analysis of coastal wind storms', Paper presented at 2004 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings: Science for Society: Exploring and Managing a Changing Planet. IGARSS 2004, Anchorage, AK, United States, 9/20/04 - 9/24/04 pp. 4127-4130.

Application of a SAR image archive to climatological analysis of coastal wind storms. / Loescher, Kenneth; Young, George; Winstead, Nathaniel et al.
2004. 4127-4130 Paper presented at 2004 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings: Science for Society: Exploring and Managing a Changing Planet. IGARSS 2004, Anchorage, AK, United States.

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Application of a SAR image archive to climatological analysis of coastal wind storms

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