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This is a book about satellite oceanography and so this chapter about satellite-based measurements of wind and phenomena related to the wind does not attempt to address the topic from the meteorologist’s point of view. For that there are texts devoted to satellite meteorology (e.g., Kidder and Vonder Haar, 1995). Instead, the objective is to review briefly, from the oceanographer’s perspective, the circumstances in which knowledge of wind above the ocean is important for marine science and to assess whether, and in which circumstances, satellite data can provide it more appropriately than other sources.

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Robinson, I.S. (2010). Wind over the sea. In: Discovering the Ocean from Space. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68322-3_9

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