The Winds and Currents Mission Concept

Frontiers in Marine Science

Dudley Chelton¹  J. Thomas Farrar²  Dragana Perkovic-Martin³  Mark Bourassa⁴  Ernesto Rodríguez⁵  Roger Samelson⁵  David Long⁶ 

[1] COAPS, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States;College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, United States;;EOAS &Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States;Upper Ocean Processes Group, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States;

关键词: surface currents;    surface winds;    Doppler;    scatterometer;    air-sea interaction;    sea ice;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fmars.2019.00438

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The Winds and Currents Mission (WaCM) is a proposed approach to meet the need identified by the NRC Decadal Survey for the simultaneous measurements of ocean vector winds and currents. WaCM features a Ka-band pencil-beam Doppler scatterometer able to map ocean winds and currents globally. We review the principles behind the WaCM measurement and the requirements driving the mission. We then present an overview of the WaCM observatory and tie its capabilities to other OceanObs reviews and measurement approaches.

【 授权许可】

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