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Author (up) DiNapoli, S url  openurl
  Title Determining the Error Characteristics of H*WIND Type $loc['typeManuscript']
  Year 2010 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Hurricane, Tropical Cyclones, Wind Analysis, Uncertainty  
  Abstract The HRD Real-time Hurricane Wind Analysis System (H*Wind) is a software application used by NOAA's Hurricane Research Division to create a gridded tropical cyclone wind analysis based on a wide range of observations. One application of H*Wind fields is calibration of scatterometers for high wind speed environments. Unfortunately, the accuracy of the H*Wind product has not been studied extensively, and therefore the accuracy of scatterometer calibrations in these environments is also unknown. This investigation seeks to determine the uncertainty in the H*Wind product and estimate the contributions of several potential error sources. These error sources include random observation errors, relative bias between different data types, temporal drift resulting from combining non-simultaneous measurements, and smoothing and interpolation errors in the H*Wind software. The effects of relative bias between different data types and random observation errors are determined by performing statistical calculations on the observed wind speeds. We show that in the absence of large biases, the total contribution of all error sources results in an uncertainty of approximately 7% near the storm center, which increases to nearly 15% near the tropical storm force wind radius. The H*Wind analysis algorithm is found to introduce a positive bias to the wind speeds near the storm center, where the analyzed wind speeds are enhanced to match the highest observations. In addition, spectral analyses are performed to ensure that the filter wavelength of the final analysis product matches user specifications. With increased knowledge of these error sources and their effects, researchers will have a better understanding of the uncertainty in the H*Wind product, and can then judge the suitability of H*Wind for various research applications  
  Address Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science  
  Corporate Author Thesis $loc['Master's thesis']  
  Publisher Florida State University Place of Publication Tallahassee, FL Editor  
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  Call Number COAPS @ mfield @ Serial 574  
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Author (up) Dukhovskoy, D; Bourassa, M url  openurl
  Title Comparison of ocean surface wind products in the perspective of ocean modeling of the Nordic Seas Type $loc['typeConference Article']
  Year 2011 Publication OCEANS 2011 Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords scatterometer winds; Arctic Ocean; ocean modeling  
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  Area Expedition Conference MTS/IEEE OCEANS Conference  
  Funding Approved $loc['no']  
  Call Number COAPS @ mfield @ Serial 315  
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Author (up) Hilburn, K.A. url  doi
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  Title Development of scatterometer-derived surface pressures for the Southern Ocean Type $loc['typeJournal Article']
  Year 2003 Publication Journal of Geophysical Research Abbreviated Journal J. Geophys. Res.  
  Volume 108 Issue C7 Pages  
  Keywords scatterometer; surface pressure; variational techniques; Southern Ocean; SeaWinds; QuikSCAT  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 0148-0227 ISBN Medium  
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  Funding NASA, NOAA, ONR Approved $loc['no']  
  Call Number COAPS @ mfield @ Serial 477  
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Author (up) Hite, M. M. url  openurl
  Title Vorticity-Based Detection of Tropical Cyclogenesis Type $loc['typeManuscript']
  Year 2006 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Quikscat, Seawinds, Tropical Disturbance, Tropical Cyclogenesis, Vorticity  
  Abstract Ocean wind vectors from the SeaWinds scatterometer on QuikSCAT and GOES imagery are used to develop an objective technique that can detect and monitor tropical disturbances associated with the early stages of tropical cyclogenesis in the Atlantic basin. The technique is based on identification of surface vorticity and wind speed signatures that exceed certain threshold magnitudes, with vorticity averaged over an appropriate spatial scale. The threshold values applied herein are determined from the precursors of 15 tropical cyclones during the 1999-2004 Atlantic hurricane seasons using research-quality QuikSCAT data. Tropical disturbances are found for these cases within a range of 19 hours to 101 hours before classification as tropical cyclones by the National Hurricane Center (NHC). The 15 cases are further subdivided based upon their origination source (i.e., easterly wave, upper-level cut-off low, stagnant frontal zone, etc). Primary focus centers on the cases associated with tropical waves, since these waves account for approximately 63% of all Atlantic tropical cyclones. The detection technique illustrates the ability to track these tropical disturbances from near the coast of Africa. Analysis of the pre-tropical cyclone (TC) tracks for these cases depict stages, related to wind speed and precipitation, in the evolution of an easterly wave to tropical cyclone.  
  Address Department of Meteorology  
  Corporate Author Thesis $loc['Master's thesis']  
  Publisher Florida State University Place of Publication Tallahassee, FL Editor  
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  Call Number COAPS @ mfield @ Serial 616  
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Author (up) Hoffman, R.N.; Privé, N.; Bourassa, M. url  doi
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  Title Comments on “Reanalyses and Observations: What's the Difference?” Type $loc['typeJournal Article']
  Year 2017 Publication Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Abbreviated Journal Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc.  
  Volume 98 Issue 11 Pages 2455-2459  
  Keywords GEOPHYSICAL DATA; marine surface winds; energy and water cycles  
  Abstract Are there important differences between reanalysis data and familiar observations and measurements? If so, what are they? This essay evaluates four possible answers that relate to: the role of inference, reliance on forecasts, the need to solve an ill-posed inverse problem, and understanding of errors and uncertainties. The last of these is argued to be most significant. The importance of characterizing uncertainties associated with results—whether those results are observations or measurements, analyses or reanalyses, or forecasts—is emphasized.  
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  ISSN 0003-0007 ISBN Medium  
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  Call Number COAPS @ rl18 @ Serial 990  
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Author (up) Holbach, H.M.; Uhlhorn, E.W.; Bourassa, M.A. url  doi
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  Title Off-Nadir SFMR Brightness Temperature Measurements in High-Wind Conditions Type $loc['typeJournal Article']
  Year 2018 Publication Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology Abbreviated Journal J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol.  
  Volume 35 Issue 9 Pages 1865-1879  
  Keywords Tropical cyclones; Wind; Air-sea interaction; Microwave observations; Remote sensing; Surface observations  
  Abstract Wind and wave-breaking directions are investigated as potential sources of an asymmetry identified in off-nadir remotely sensed measurements of ocean surface brightness temperatures obtained by the Stepped Frequency Microwave Radiometer (SFMR) in high-wind conditions, including in tropical cyclones. Surface wind speed, which dynamically couples the atmosphere and ocean, can be inferred from SFMR ocean surface brightness temperature measurements using a radiative transfer model and an inversion algorithm. The accuracy of the ocean surface brightness temperature to wind speed calibration relies on accurate knowledge of the surface variables that are influencing the ocean surface brightness temperature. Previous studies have identified wind direction signals in horizontally polarized radiometer measurements in low to moderate (0�20 m s−1) wind conditions over a wide range of incidence angles. This study finds that the azimuthal asymmetry in the off-nadir SFMR brightness temperature measurements is also likely a function of wind direction and extends the results of these previous studies to high-wind conditions. The off-nadir measurements from the SFMR provide critical data for improving the understanding of the relationships between brightness temperature, surface wave�breaking direction, and surface wind vectors at various incidence angles, which is extremely useful for the development of geophysical model functions for instruments like the Hurricane Imaging Radiometer (HIRAD).  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 0739-0572 ISBN Medium  
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  Funding Approved $loc['no']  
  Call Number COAPS @ rl18 @ Serial 980  
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Author (up) Holthuijsen, L.H.; Powell, M.D.; Pietrzak, J.D. url  doi
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  Title Wind and waves in extreme hurricanes Type $loc['typeJournal Article']
  Year 2012 Publication Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans Abbreviated Journal J. Geophys. Res.  
  Volume 117 Issue C9 Pages n/a-n/a  
  Keywords GPS sondes; hurricanes; swell; wave breaking; white caps; wind drag  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 0148-0227 ISBN Medium  
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  Funding Approved $loc['no']  
  Call Number COAPS @ mfield @ Serial 268  
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Author (up) Hughes, P. J. url  openurl
  Title The Influence of Small-Scale Sea Surface Temperature Gradients on Surface Vector Winds and Subsequent Impacts on Oceanic Ekman Pumping Type $loc['typeManuscript']
  Year 2014 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
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  Keywords Air-Sea Interaction; Sea Surface Temperature Gradients; SST-wind relationship; Surface Vector Winds  
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  Address Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science  
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  Publisher Florida State University Place of Publication Tallahassee, FL Editor  
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  Call Number COAPS @ mfield @ Serial 162  
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Author (up) Jones, B. url  openurl
  Title Influence of Panamanian Wind Jets on the Southeast Intertropical Convergence Zone Type $loc['typeManuscript']
  Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Central American Wind Jets  
  Abstract Gridded QuikSCAT data has been used to show that a strong confluence zone of the Southeast Pacific Intertropical Convergence Zone (SITCZ) existed in 2000 � 2002 during boreal spring, and the Panama wind jet contributes to its variability. Time series analysis of winds off the Gulf of Panama and convergence advection into the Southern Hemisphere (from 80W to 95W) show these winds kept the SE Trades out of the Northern Hemisphere and created a confluent zone in the Southern Hemisphere. A monthly averaged SITCZ is maintained by the deceleration of the SE Trades that flow from warm water toward the equatorial cold tongue, creating a speed convergent zone south of the equator. Images of wind trajectories show zonally orientated SE Trade winds that were deflected from a divergent zone parallel to the coast of South America converge with more meridional Trades over warm waters. Panamanian winds crossed into the Southern Hemisphere to contribute to this convergence. It is hypothesized that this confluent zone can be intensified by the Panamanian winds. In 2002, the SITCZ confluent zone occurred with more intense Panamanian gap flow than the previous two years. Cross equatorial SE Trades wrapped anti-cyclonically around a divergent pocket in the Northern Hemisphere and became southward winds, which allowed the Panamanian winds to enter the Southern Hemisphere and intensify the SITCZ. Variability in the Panamanian winds makes a substantial contribution to the evolution of the SITCZ.  
  Address Department of Meteorology  
  Corporate Author Thesis $loc['Master's thesis']  
  Publisher Florida State University Place of Publication Tallahassee, FL Editor  
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  Funding OSU, NASA, NSF Approved $loc['no']  
  Call Number COAPS @ mfield @ Serial 623  
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Author (up) Kara, A.B.; Rochford, P.A.; Hurlburt, H.E. url  doi
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  Title Air-Sea Flux Estimates And The 1997-1998 Enso Event Type $loc['typeJournal Article']
  Year 2002 Publication Boundary-Layer Meteorology Abbreviated Journal Boundary-Layer Meteorology  
  Volume 103 Issue 3 Pages 439-458  
  Keywords bulk formulae; El Nino; La Nina; latent and sensible heat flux; ocean mixed-layer depth; wind stress  
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  ISSN 0006-8314 ISBN Medium  
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  Call Number COAPS @ mfield @ Serial 495  
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