Study of katabatic wind fields by using ERS-1 synthetic aperture radar imagery of the ocean surface

Author

Alpers, Werner ; Pahl, Ulrike ; Groß, Günther ; Etling, Dieter

Author_Institution

Inst. of Oceanogr., Hamburg Univ., Germany

Volume

3

fYear

1996

fDate

27-31 May 1996

Firstpage

1478

Abstract

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images acquired over the Mediterranean Sea from the First European Remote Sensing satellite ERS-1 showing sea surface manifestations of katabatic wind fields are presented. By using a mesoscale atmospheric model, the wind field associated with cold air flowing from the mountains through a broad valley in Calabria (southern Italy) onto the sea is calculated and compared with the wind field derived from an ERS-1 SAR image

Keywords

atmospheric techniques; meteorological radar; remote sensing by radar; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; wind; Calabria; ERS-1; Europe; Italy; Mediterranean Sea; SAR; atmosphere; broad valley; coast; cold air flow; katabatic wind; measurement technique; mesoscale atmospheric model; mountain; ocean surface; radar remote sensing; synthetic aperture radar; Atmospheric waves; Meteorology; Oceans; Radar imaging; Rough surfaces; Sea surface; Spaceborne radar; Surface roughness; Synthetic aperture radar; Wind speed;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1996. IGARSS '96. 'Remote Sensing for a Sustainable Future.', International

Conference_Location

Lincoln, NE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3068-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1996.516703

Filename

516703