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Science 13 February 2004:
Vol. 303. no. 5660, pp. 962 - 963
DOI: 10.1126/science.1094584
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Perspectives

ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE:
Wind Data: A Promise in Peril

Kathryn A. Kelly

Satellite-based radars called scatterometers are yielding a wealth of new data about wind and ocean currents. In her Perspective, Kelly discusses the report by Chelton et al., in which scatterometer data are analyzed to show the importance of small-scale wind structures in interactions between wind and ocean. What is needed now, writes Kelly, is a sustained program of such observations to provide data for improved weather and climate prediction.

The author is at the Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)