QuikSCAT's SeaWinds facilitates early identification of tropical depressions in 1999 hurricane season

Details QuikSCAT's SeaWinds facilitates early identification of tropical depressions in 1999 hurricane season QuikSCAT's SeaWinds facilitates early identification of tropical depressions in 1999 hurricane season

Mar 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001georl..28.1043k&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 28, Issue 6, p. 1043-1046

Physics

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Meteorology And Atmospheric Dynamics: Remote Sensing, Meteorology And Atmospheric Dynamics: Synoptic-Scale Meteorology, Meteorology And Atmospheric Dynamics: Tropical Meteorology, Meteorology And Atmospheric Dynamics: Instruments And Techniques

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Far from land and surface ship observations, most tropical depressions are identified by examining images from geostationary satellites for the presence of rotation of the convective cloud masses. During the 1999 hurricane season, surface wind vectors obtained by the SeaWinds scatterometer on the QuickSCAT satellite for the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean Sea were examined to test the hypothesis that developing tropical depressions (TDs) could be observed with this satellite sensor, before identification by the traditional means. QuickSCAT was able to detect the presence of closed circulation in the surface winds before the systems were designated as depressions. The satellite's unprecedented large swath width of 1800 km allows twice a day observation of most of the tropical oceans. SeaWinds data can, therefore, provide valuable guidance that are an important addition to the tools available to the tropical cyclone forecasting community.

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