A new paradigm in earth environmental monitoring with the cygnss small satellite constellation

CS Ruf, C Chew, T Lang, MG Morris, K Nave… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
A constellation of small, low-cost satellites is able to make scientifically valuable
measurements of the Earth which can be used for weather forecasting, disaster monitoring …

The Pacific as the world's greatest theater of bird migration: Extreme flights spark questions about physiological capabilities, behavior, and the evolution of migratory …

T Piersma, RE Gill Jr, DR Ruthrauff, CG Guglielmo… - …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Pacific Basin, by virtue of its vastness and its complex aeroscape, provides
unique opportunities to address questions about the behavioral and physiological …

[HTML][HTML] A global climatology of surface wind and wind stress fields from eight years of QuikSCAT scatterometer data

CM Risien, DB Chelton - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2008 - journals.ametsoc.org
A Global Climatology of Surface Wind and Wind Stress Fields from Eight Years of
QuikSCAT Scatterometer Data in: Journal of Physical Oceanography Volume 38 Issue 11 (2008) …

Large-scale wind energy potential of the Caribbean region using near-surface reanalysis data

XT Chadee, RM Clarke - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
The lack of dense, high quality, long-term in-situ wind data sets and wind resource maps for
the Caribbean region is a major impediment to the development of wind energy projects …

Comparison of reanalyzed, analyzed, satellite-retrieved and NWP modelled winds with buoy data along the Iberian Peninsula coast

D Carvalho, A Rocha, M Gómez-Gesteira… - Remote sensing of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Offshore wind data derived from satellite measurements (CCMP, QuikSCAT, NCDC Blended
Sea Winds and IFREMER Blended Wind Fields), reanalyses (NCEP-CFSR, ERA-Interim …

Mapping high sea winds from space: A global climatology

T Sampe, SP Xie - Bulletin of the American Meteorological …, 2007 - journals.ametsoc.org
High winds at sea are feared by sailors, but their distribution is poorly known because ships
have avoided them as much as possible. The accumulation of spaceborne scatterometer …

Techno economic and environmental assessment of Flettner rotors for marine propulsion

L Talluri, DK Nalianda, E Giuliani - Ocean engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
Wind energy is a mature renewable energy source that offers significant potential for near-
term (2020) and long-term (2050) greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions. Similar to …

Evaluation of the wind energy potential along the Mediterranean Sea coasts

F Onea, L Deleanu, L Rusu… - Energy Exploration & …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
The objective of the present work is to evaluate the wind potential in the nearshore of the
Mediterranean Sea. Thus, a comprehensive picture of the wind conditions is provided by …

Wind power distribution over the ocean

WT Liu, W Tang, X Xie - Geophysical research letters, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Probability distribution and power density of wind speed over global oceans are computed
from eight years of QuikSCAT measurements. They describe the variation and higher …

Remote sensing for wind energy

A Peña, CB Hasager, J Lange, J Anger, M Badger… - 2013 - orbit.dtu.dk
Abstract The Remote Sensing in Wind Energy report provides a description of several topics
and it is our hope that students and others interested will learn from it. The idea behind it …