Estimating Winds from Synthetic Aperture Radar under Typhoon Conditions
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The Impacts of Typhoons on the Ocean in the Pacific (ITOP) program is a multi-national field campaign that aims to study the ocean response to typhoons in the western Pacific Ocean. The main goals are to understand the formation and dissipation of cold wakes and how ocean eddies affect typhoons. The NATO Undersea Research Centers (NURC) activities within ITOP are related to extracting high resolution wind fields as well as information on the tropical cyclones eye from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data. This SAR derived information will be helping to better understand air-sea fluxes under extreme wind speeds and improve the knowledge and estimates of surface wave fields under typhoons as well as the typhoon forcasting.
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