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Department of Oceanography
Analysis of variable scatterometer wind fields in the Benguela upwelling region
Abstract
dc:description.abstractThe dissertation seeked to understand the effectiveness of satellite based data collection of wind fields along the west coast of southern Africa, pertaining to particular synoptic atmospheric systems. A comparison between data from two automatic coastal weather stations and measurements obtained by the NASA scatterometer (NSCAT) for the period 1 December 1996 to 31 May 1997 yielded a correlation coefficient of 70%.
Degree
thesis:*- Grantor dc:publisher.institution
- Department of Oceanography
- Year dc:date.issued
- 2001
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Johnson, Ashley Stratton
- Advisors dc:contributor.advisor
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- Shillington, Frank
- Nelson, G
- Roy, Claude
Rights
- Language dc:language.iso
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Handle dc:identifier.uri
- http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6484
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/6484