Retrieval of vertical wind profiles during monsoon from satellite observed winds over the Indian Ocean using complex EOF analysis

摘要

The aim of this paper is to study the feasibility of deriving vertical wind profiles from current satellite observations. With this aim, we carried out complex empirical orthogonal function(CEOF)analysis of a large number of radiosonde observations of wind profiles over the Indian during the monsoon months. It has been found that the first two CEOFs explain 67/100 of the total variance in wind fields.