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Surface wind measurements in Sequal I
Author(s) -
Payne Richard E.
Publication year - 1984
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/gl011i008p00719
Subject(s) - equator , latitude , wind speed , meteorology , geology , wind stress , event (particle physics) , atmospheric sciences , geodesy , climatology , environmental science , physics , astrophysics
Data from meteorological recorders at 29.37W, 24.00W and 14.93W, all within one degree latitude of the equator, show that a relaxation event in the wind speed occurred nearly simultaneously at all three during late March 1983 during SEQUAL I. Wind stress subsequently increased by approximately a factor of two. The event was not recognizable in the data from a fourth recorder at 6.10N, 27.88W.