Abstract

Abstract Integrated Sounding Systems (ISSs), which combine surface-based, balloon-borne, and radar observation capabilities, were deployed for the first time during the Intensive Observing Period (IOP) of the recent Coupled Ocean–Atmosphere Response Experiment. This note addresses efforts to synthesize the data from these disparate platforms as well as avenues for future research that were opened in the process. The collaborative nature of the ISSs led to the application of different processing methods to the surface winds than were used with the winds measured by 915-MHz wind profilers. A new set of ship-based surface winds that are more directly analogous to the profiler winds has been developed. The statistical properties of these “AL-processed ISS surface winds” are shown to be similar to those of the land-based ISS surface winds, to the low-level profiler winds, and to surface winds measured at nearby buoys. A method of combining the surface and profiler winds from an ISS into one coherent dataset is...

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