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NASA, CGMS-43, May 2015 Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites - CGMS NASA Global Wind Measurements and Technology Development Presented to CGMS-43 Working Group II session, agenda item WGII/6 Presented By: Dong Wu, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Report Prepared By: Dong L. Wu 1, David Halpern 2, Kevin J. Mueller 2, Ernesto Rodriguez 2, Michael J. Kavaya 3, Upendra N. Singh 3, Sara Tucker 4, G. David Emmitt 5, Christopher S. Ruf 6, and Ákos Horváth 7 1 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 2 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology 3 NASA Langley Research Center 4 Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. 5 Simpson Weather Associates 6 University of Michigan 7 Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research
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NASA, CGMS-43, May 2015 Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites - CGMS MISR Wind Observations of Kármán Vortices MISR research algorithm to produce 4.4 km winds, capturing the fine structure of Madeira island wake flows Vortex streets as a 3D pattern in 2D inviscid flow over a obstacle Good agreement found between the observed and WRF-simulated winds at instantaneous cloud-levels Courtesy of Akos Horvath and Kevin Mueller
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NASA, CGMS-43, May 2015 Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites - CGMS RapidScat Launched to ISS on 20 September 2014 (A) ISS RapidScat showing emission of the two pencil- beam scatterometer (B) RapidScat wind speed and direction measurements near Philippines on 6 December 2014 when Typhoon Hagupit (also known as Typhoon Ruby in the Philippines) made landfall. Maximum wind speed recorded by RapidScat was about 95 miles h-1 (C) Aerial view of Typhoon Hagupit recorded by astronaut Terry Virts on the ISS on 6 December 2014. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-30366091
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