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The NASA QuikSCAT (Quick Scatterometer) was an Earth observation satellite carrying the SeaWinds scatterometer.Its primary mission was to measure the surface wind speed and direction over the ice-free global oceans via its effect on water waves.
The mission will also measure ocean surface wind speed in the storm's inner core with sufficient frequency to resolve genesis and rapid intensification. As secondary goal, the project will support the operational hurricane forecast community by producing and providing ocean surface wind speed data products. [11]
The latest release of the Global Wind Atlas (3.0) was launched on October 25, 2019, featuring further methodological modeling improvements, all new raw data (based on 10 years of mesoscale time-series model simulations), data coverage spanning 200 kilometers offshore, two additional heights (data now at 10, 50, 100, 150 and 200 m above ground ...
NASA Ames Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel [48] Transonic/supersonic United States NASA Glenn 10- by 10-Foot Abe Silverstein Supersonic Wind Tunnel [49] 3 m × 3 m (10 ft × 10 ft) Supersonic United States NASA Glenn 8- by 6-Foot Wind Tunnel [50] 2 m × 2 m (8 ft × 6 ft) Transonic United States NASA Glenn 9- by 15-Foot Low-Speed Wind Tunnel [51]
MIGHTI was designed to detect wind speeds as low as 16 km/h (9.9 mph), even though the spacecraft was traveling at over 23,000 km/h (14,000 mph) (to stay in orbit). [19] IVM collected in situ data about ions in the local environment around the spacecraft, whereas EUV and FUV were spectrographic imagers. EUV was a 1-dimension limb imager ...
A wind atlas contains data on the wind speed and wind direction in a region. [1] These data include maps , but also time series or frequency distributions . A climatological wind atlas covers hourly averages at a standard height (10 meters) over even longer periods (30 years) but depending on the application there are variations in averaging ...
It was the first of many now-famous NACA and NASA wind tunnels. Although this specific wind tunnel was not unique or advanced, it enabled NACA engineers and scientists to develop and test new and advanced concepts in aerodynamics and to improve future wind tunnel design. Atmospheric 5-ft wind tunnel (1920) Variable Density Tunnel (1922)
Depiction of ISS-RapidScat's location on ISS and its operation ISS-RapidScat data from October 2014 ISS-RapidScat returned data on weather like Typhoon Vongfong, pictured here as seen from ISS in 2014. ISS-RapidScat was an instrument mounted to the International Space Station 's Columbus module that measured wind speeds. [1]