Verification of cloud motion winds
β Scribed by Heinrich Woick
- Book ID
- 103650738
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 279 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0273-1177
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The relationship between satellite-derived low-level cloud motion, surface wind and geostrophic wind vectors is examined using GATE data. In the trades, surface wind speeds can be derived from cloud motion vectors by the linear relation: V = 0.62 V, + 1.9 m s-l with a mean scatter of f 1.3 m s-l. Th
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