Calibration of ERS-1 Scatterometer Winds Forecasting Difficulties in Showers the Storm of 10 January 1993 World Weather News — March 1993 Retirement of Raymond Hide
The Meteorologicaf Magazine Calibration of ERS-1 scatterometer winds Forecasting difficulties in showers The storm of 10 January 1993 World weather news — March 1993 Retirement of Raymond Hide DUPLICATE JOURNALS National Meteorological Library FitzRoy Road, Exeter, Devon. EX1 3PB HMSO Met.0.1010 Vol. 122 No. 1451 ©Crown copyright 1993. Applications for reproduction should be made to HMSO. First published 1993 HMSO HMSO publications are available from: HMSO Publications Centre (Mail, fax and telephone orders only) PO Box 276, London, SW8 5DT Telephone orders 071-873 9090 General enquiries 071-873 0011 (queuing system in operation for both numbers) Fax orders 071-873 8200 HMSO Bookshops 49 High Holborn, London, WC1V 6HB (counter service only) 071-8730011 Fax 071-873 8200 258 Broad Street, Birmingham, Bl 2HE 021-643 3740 Fax 021-643 6510 Southey House, 33 Wine Street, Bristol, BS1 2BQ 0272264306 Fax 0272 294515 9-21 Princess Street, Manchester, M60 8AS 061-834 7201 Fax 061-833 0634 16 Arthur Street, Belfast, BT1 4GD 0232238451 Fax 0232 235401 71 Lothian Road, Edinburgh EH3 9AZ 031-2284181 Fax 031-229 2734 HMSO's Accredited Agents (see Yellow Pages) and through good booksellers £3.40 net, Annual Subscription £38, including postage. 3807800102461 3 The Meteorological June 1993 Magazine Vol. 122 No. 1451 551.501.75:551.507.362.2:681.2.08 The calibration of ERS-1 scatterometer winds D. Offiler Meteorological Office, Bracknell_________________________ Summary The European Remote Sensing satellite, ERS-1, was launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) on 17 July 1991. One of its instruments, the Wind Scatterometer, is a radar system from which measurements of near-surface wind vectors can be derived.
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