Wind Retrieval using Marine Radars
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Within the High Resolution Air-Sea Interaction (HiRes) DRI the Center for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE), former NATO Undersea Research Center, will develop and validate methodologies to retrieve wind field parameters from X-band marine radars. The main parameters are the mean surface wind vector; the high-resolution wind field, as well as wind gusts in vicinity of the measurement platform (within 2000 m). In contrast to traditional wind measurements marine radar retrieved winds are not influenced by the blockage and shadowing of the platform itself. Therefore, marine radars are expected to be an ideal solution to measure winds operationally from large platforms and ships. As the wind information is an important parameter in the marine radar wave measurement and the wave modeling, we anticipate that our radar retrieved wind information will help to improve the measuring and modeling activities of phase-resolved surface wave fields undertaken within HiRes.
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