The Influence of the Topographic Structure of the Sea Surfaceon the Error of Determining the Surface Windby Satellite Optical Scannersстатья
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Аннотация:The error in determining the surface wind speed by use of optical scanners is analyzed as due to
the variety of physical factors forming the topographical structure of the sea surface. It is shown that this error
can be divided into two components. The first component is caused by the stochastic character of the relation
between the wind speed and energy of short surface waves; it does not depend on the average wind speed and
amounts to 0.2 m/s. The second component is caused by deviations of the slope distribution from the Gaus
sian distribution; it increases with an increase in wind and varies from 0.1 m/s at a wind speed of 1.5 to 0.4 m/s
at a wind speed of 15 m/s.