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Patoux & Brown 2001
Patoux, J. and Brown, R.A. (2001). A scheme for improving scatterometer surface wind fields. Journal of Geophysical Research 106: doi: 10.1029/2000JD000177. issn: 0148-0227.

A method is presented for improving QuikSCAT surface wind fields. The University of Washington Planetary Boundary Layer model is used to retrieve a surface pressure field from any swath of QuikSCAT surface wind vectors. An alternate set of surface wind vectors is computed from the newly calculated pressure field. The latter can be smoothed and the process can be iterated. New surface wind vectors can be calculated where ambiguity removal fails and where measurements are missing. The present methodology preserves boundary layer dynamics and is an improvement over a statistical filter. ¿ 2001 American Geophysical Union

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Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics, Boundary layer processes, Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics, Remote sensing, Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics, Instruments and techniques
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Journal of Geophysical Research
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