Extended Abstract (116K)JP2.14
Global pressure fields from scatterometer winds
Jerome Patoux, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and R. C. Foster and R. A. Brown
A method is presented for computing global surface pressure fields from satellite scatterometer winds. Pressure gradients are estimated using a two-layer similarity planetary boundary layer model in the midlatitudes and a mixed layer model in the Tropics. A global pressure field is then fit to the pressure gradients by least-square optimization. The method is applied to a representative set of swaths and tested against TAO buoy data and surface analyses.
Supplementary URL: http://pbl.atmos.washington.edu
Joint Poster Session 2, Scatterometer Observations of Air-Sea Interaction (Joint Poster Session between the 12th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography and the 12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere)
Wednesday, 12 February 2003, 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
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