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Estimating the seaward extent of sea breeze from QuikSCAT scatterometry
Author(s) -
Aparna M.,
Shetye S. R.,
Shankar D.,
Shenoi S. S. C.,
Mehra P.,
Desai R. G. P.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/2005gl023107
Subject(s) - geology , climatology , environmental science , meteorology , sea breeze , oceanography , geography
We present an objective method for quantifying the seaward extent of the sea breeze. The underlying assumption is that the offshore decay in the strength of the sea breeze results in an offshore decay of the vector correlation between the wind vectors near and away from the coast. The degradation in the vector correlation coefficient is used to estimate the seaward extent of the sea breeze using QuikSCAT data.