On the sensitivity of numerical weather prediction to remotely sensed marine surface wind data - A simulation study

The objective of the study reported here is to assess the potential impact on numerical weather prediction (NWP) of remotely sensed surface wind data. The motivation for this was the promise of obtaining such data in quantity from the scatterometer on Seasat-1 and follow on satellites. At the time

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