We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Encounter of Foehn Wind with an Atmospheric Eddy over the Black Sea as Observed by the Synthetic Aperture Radar Onboard Envisat.
- Authors
Alpers, Werner; Ivanov, Andrei Yu.; Dagestad, Knut-Frode
- Abstract
Foehn wind blowing through the Kolkhida (Kolkheti) Lowland in the southwestern Caucasus (western Georgia) was observed on an Envisat synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image as it encountered an atmospheric cyclonic eddy over the Black Sea on 13 September 2010. This SAR image reveals unprecedented finescale features of the near-surface wind fields that cannot be resolved by other sensors. It shows, among others, the deflection of the foehn wind by the atmospheric eddy. Quantitative information on the near-surface wind field over the sea is extracted from the SAR image.
- Subjects
COLCHIS; BLACK Sea; ATMOSPHERIC research; SYNTHETIC aperture radar; CYCLONES; WINDS
- Publication
Monthly Weather Review, 2011, Vol 139, Issue 12, p3992
- ISSN
0027-0644
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1175/MWR-D-11-00074.1