Articles | Volume 12, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-12-39-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-12-39-2016
Research article
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15 Jan 2016
Research article |  | 15 Jan 2016

On the feasibility of the use of wind SAR to downscale waves on shallow water

O. Q. Gutiérrez, F. Filipponi, A. Taramelli, E. Valentini, P. Camus, and F. J. Méndez

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High-resolution wave hindcast has been performed for the N Adriatic Sea using a hybrid methodology, combining a regional wave hindcast database, wind reanalysis, satellite SAR wind fields and data mining techniques. Comparison with in situ instrumental data indicates the good quality of the downscaled waves; moreover, a good correlation was found on the downscaled waves forced with different wind fields. Results demonstrate how SAR wind fields can be successfully up-taken in wave downscaling.