Surface Winds | NASA Earthdata By studying these winds, scientists can learn more about ocean processes and improve predictions of extreme weather NASA’s available data products useful to the study of surface winds include average wind speed and direction, sea level pressure, and surface stress
Atmospheric Winds | NASA Earthdata Data visualization is a powerful tool for analysis, trend and pattern recognition, and communication Our resources help you find world-class data visualizations to complement and enhance your research We also have tools and tutorials to help you translate atmospheric winds data into compelling visuals
The Power of a Brazilian Wind | NASA Earthdata Kempton said, “The ideal wind-speed zone has winds that are high enough to produce energy but without strong storms that pose a threat to the installation ” Second, offshore turbine foundations must be on relatively shallow coastal shelves; the deepest installed turbine is currently rated for 50 meters (164 feet) in depth
Reckoning with Winds | NASA Earthdata Winds over the oceans are retrieved because the water's surface roughens rapidly with increasing wind speed, which increases the backscatter detected by this specialized radar instrument NSCAT scans two 600 km bands of the Earth -- one band on each side of the instrument's orbit path, separated by a gap of 330 km
Multisensor Worldwide Ocean Winds (MWOW) Product Observations of ocean surface winds are vital for marine navigation, predicting hurricanes and other oceanic storms, and science and modeling of the ocean-atmosphere interface The Satellite Needs Working Group (SNWG)-2022 assessment found that providing gridded, harmonized winds near the ocean surface would help support the needs of several
Multi-Sensor Ocean Surface Winds Product | NASA Earthdata Observations of ocean surface winds are vital for marine navigation, predicting hurricanes and other oceanic storms, and science and modeling of the ocean-atmosphere interface Satellite-based scatterometers, synthetic aperture radars (SARs), altimeters, and passive microwave radiometers all provide wind retrievals
Forecasting and Understanding Mountain Gap Winds: A Machine . . . - Earthdata Model simulations of a storm-force MGW event over the Gulf of Tehuantepec Top plot represents the spatial distribution of 10-meter winds (in meters per second) if ocean-atmosphere effects are not included in the forecast model, and bottom plot shows simulation results if ocean-atmosphere effects are included in the forecast model
SeaWinds | NASA Earthdata The SeaWinds instrument, which flew on NASA's Quick Scatterometer (QuikSCAT) satellite and NASA JAXA's ADEOS-II, was a specialized microwave radar that measured near-surface wind velocity and cloud cover over Earth's oceans
Hurricanes | NASA Earthdata Hurricanes are a rotating, tropical cyclone with a low pressure center (the eye) and 1-min average surface (10 m) winds in excess of 32 m s−1 (64 knots) in the Western Hemisphere This area encompasses the North Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and the eastern and central North Pacific east of the international date line
Monsoons | NASA Earthdata Subtropical air entering the ITCZ rises, cools, and forms the bands of clouds that produce heavy rainstorms that are the hallmark of monsoons Seasonal changes in the strength of sunlight and the flow of Earth's Trade Winds shift where the ITCZ sits and monsoons form north and south of the equator