Blended Wind Product using SAR and MM5
The Johns Hopkins University / Applied Physics Laboratory
 University Partnering for Operational Support
 NOAA/NESDIS

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Project Description

Blended wind product consisting of high-resolution wind speed estimates derived from RADARSAT-1 synthetic aperture radar images. Wind directions from NOGAPS (column 3), a SAR-technique (column 5 when available) and the Air Force Weather Agency's (AFWA) operational numerical weather prediction output (column 7). In this demonstration, theaters T01 (Alaska) and T02 (CONUS) of the MM5 operational output are used.

The wind maps shown below are derived using the operational SAR wind speed processor developed at APLmodified to handle mesoscale model winds. The RADARSAT-1 images are provided courtesy of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under a project called The Alaska SAR Demonstration Project .  Wind speed resolution ranges from 100 m for the Standard Beam imagery to 500 m for the ScanSAR Wide mode imagery.

NOTE: Begining March 1, 2005 the scatterometer algorithm used in operational processing was changed from CMOD4 to CMOD5. CMOD5 provides better estimates at high winds (> 20 m/s). One issue with the new model function is that there are times, particularly at higher wind speeds, that two wind speeds are retrieved. At this point, we are only reporting the lower wind speed. This approach seems adequate, but we would appreciate feed back on any anomalies you might notice in the wind images —

Nathaniel.Winstead@jhuapl.edu March 16, 2005

For information on SAR see:  SAR Meteorology
Project Link for NSF: Barrier Jets in NE Gulf of Alaska
Project Link for NSF: Gulf of Alaska QuikSCAT Imagery
Imagery from the Korean Peninsula: Korean Imagery
Imagery from the East Coast of the US: East Coast Imagery
Imagery from the Labrador Sea and Greenland: Greenland Imagery
Imagery from the Juneau CWA:  Juneau Offshore Imagery


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Nathaniel.Winstead@jhuapl.edu 
This page last updated on Thu 26 Dec 2002 10:00 AM EST.