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Sea "clutter" detected in radar returns over the ocean |
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Relationship between wind speed and ocean surface roughness discovered
Satellites reveal winds aloft via cloud tracking in TV images |
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| 1991 - European scatterometer series
1996 - NASA scatterometer launched 1999 - QuikSCAT launched (NASA) |
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