ON HIGH RESOLUTION COASTAL WINDS

The Advanced scatterometer, ASCAT, on MetOp-A was launched on 19 October 2006 as the third wind scatterometer currently in space joining up with the ERS-2 and the SeaWinds scatterometers. Scatterometers measure the radar backscatter from windgenerated cm-size gravity-capillary waves and provide high-resolution wind vector fields over the sea with high quality. In this paper we show progress in high resolution processing and its verification, and in processing closer to the coast.