NASA NTRS · 19850055713
Autocorrelation of wind observations
Abstract
Autocorrelation and variance statistics are calculated for cloud motion measurements from four different sources, rawinsonde wind reports, synoptic land station reports, ship reports, aircraft reports, automatic aircraft reports gathered during the Global Weather Experiment, and Seasat scatterometer winds from September 1978. The last of these data sources exhibited the highest autocorrelations and lowest standard deviations over short distances. Structure function plots of autocovariances against separation distance between observations indicated that Seasat was most sensitive to wind field structure by having low autovariance at short distances.
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Wylie, D. P., Hinton, B. B., Howland, M. R., Lord, R. J.. 1985-05-01. Autocorrelation of wind observations. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19850055713
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