A comparison of satellite winds and surface buoy winds
This thesis investigates the relationship between open hexagonal cell cloud motion and surface winds in the northeast Pacific Ocean. Cloud targets are tracked using an automatic scheme fashioned after Barnea and Silverman's (1972) Sequential Similarity Detection Algorithm. The cloud motion ve...
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University of British Columbia
2010
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28902 |