Hurricane directional wave spectrum spatial variation in open ocean and at landfall

Author

Walsh, Edward J. ; Wright, C. Wayne ; Vandemark, Douglas C. ; Krabill, William B. ; Garcia, Andrew W. ; Houston, Samuel H. ; Powell, Mark D. ; Black, Peter G. ; Marks, Frank D.

Author_Institution

Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, Wallops Island, VA, USA

Volume

6

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

2750

Abstract

On 24 august 1998, the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scanning Radar Altimeter (SRA) provided the first documentation of the sea surface directional wave spectrum in all quadrants of a hurricane in open water when Bonnie, a large Category 3 hurricane, was east of the Bahamas. The SRA flew into Bonnie again on 26 august 1998, when she was making landfall near Wilmington, NC, documenting the wave field in the region between Charleston, SC and Cape Hatteras, NC

Keywords

ocean waves; oceanographic regions; storms; AD 1998 08 24; Bahamas; Bonnie; Cape Hatteras; Category 3; Charleston; North Atlantic; North Carolina; South Carolina; USA; United States; Wilmington; coast; direction; directional spectrum; directional wave spectrum; hurricane; landfall; ocean wave; open ocean; radar remote sensing; sea surface; spatial variation; Airborne radar; Aircraft; Hurricanes; NASA; Oceans; Radar measurements; Sea measurements; Sea surface; Surface topography; Surface waves;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2000. Proceedings. IGARSS 2000. IEEE 2000 International

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6359-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2000.859703

Filename

859703