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Wind-wave relationship for bay of Bengal from GEOSAT data

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Stellite Remote Sensing is an emerging technique for observation of oceans. The important oceanic parameters, wave heights and wind speeds derived fron GEOSAT Altimeter data, are analysed in the present paper. Relation between wind speed and height of ‘sea waves’ are obtained for southwest monsoon, northeast monsoon and nonmonsoon seasons, and regression equations are arrived at for each case. Good correlation and high accuracy are observed for all the seasons. This assures the usage of remotely sensed data for oceanic studies.

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  1. Centre of Studies in Resources Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, 400 076, Bombay

    Usha Natesan

  2. Ocean Engineering Centre, Indian Institute of Technology, 600 036, Madras

    S P Subramanian

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Natesan, U., Subramanian, S.P. Wind-wave relationship for bay of Bengal from GEOSAT data. Journ. Ind. Soc. Remote Sensing 20, 159–164 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02999212

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