- Sunglint and the study of near-surface windspeeds over the oceans.
Article
Bib No.:
- 456542
Authors:
- Cracknell, A.P.
Publication Date:
- 1990
Physical Description:
- pp.125-139
Subjects:
- SOLAR INFLUENCES
- UPPER AIR
Citation:
- Microwave remote sensing for oceanographic and marine weather-forecast models. Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Dundee, UK, August 14 - September 3, 1988.
Holding Location:
- See Parent Record
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Parent Record:
- Microwave remote sensing for oceanographic and marine weather-forecast models. Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Dundee, UK, August 14 - September 3, 1988.
Media Type:
- Article
Collection:
- Library Collection
Language:
- English
Abstract:
- Sunglint is a phenomenon that is widely neglected or ignored in the use of satellite-remote-sensing techniques to study the oceans. This lecture is concerned with a description of the effect of near-surface winds on sunglint patterns and of the established theory of Cox and Munk for establishing a quantitative relation between near-surface windspeed and the intensity distribution in an area of sunglint. The results from some of our own calculations based on using this theory with AVHRR data f...