Wind-wave relationship for bay of Bengal from GEOSAT data

Stellite Remote Sensing is an emerging technique for observation of oceans. The important oceanic parameters, wave heights and wind speeds derived fron GEOSAT Altimeter data, are analysed in the present paper. Relation between wind speed and height of 'sea waves' are obtained for southwest monsoon, northeast monsoon and nonmonsoon seasons, and regression equations are arrived at for each case. Good correlation and high accuracy are observed for all the seasons. This assures the usage of remotely sensed data for oceanic studies. © 1992 Springer.