COSEE Ocean Systems: News
NASA's RapidScat to Unveil Hidden Cycles of Sea Winds (July, 2014)
Description: Ocean waves, the hot sun, sea breezes -- the right combination makes a great day at the beach. A different combination makes a killer hurricane. The complex interactions of the ocean and the air above it that can create such different outcomes are not yet fully known. Scientists would especially like to understand the role that the daily heat of the sun plays in creating winds. In a few months, NASA will send an ocean wind-monitoring instrument to a berth on the International Space Station. That unique vantage point will give ISS-RapidScat, short for the International Space Station Rapid Scatterometer, the ability to observe daily (also called diurnal) cycles of wind created by solar heat. [Source: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory]
URL: https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/OceanEvents/2014_07_18_NASARapidScat_toUnveilHiddenCycles_SeaWinds
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Source: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Publish Date: 7/17/2014
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