QUIKSCAT STILLS
FOR NASA TV VIDEO PACKAGE
AIRING 8/9/99


These images show wind speeds and direction in the Pacific Ocean 
and Atlantic Ocean on August 1, 1999, gathered by the SeaWinds 
radar instrument flying onboard the QuikScat satellite. The 
intense surface winds of Typhoon Olga, represented by yellow 
spirals, can be seen moving South Korea in the China Sea. 
QuikScat tracks its birth as a tropical depression in the 
Philippines and its northward journey in the western Pacific to 
its landfall in Korea.  The eastern North Pacific is dominated by 
a persistent high-pressure system, whose anticyclonic (clockwise) 
flow creates strong winds blowing parallel to the coast of Canada 
and the United States. Three groups of very intense winter storms 
can be seen around Antarctica, which are associated with the 
season of maximum sea ice in that region of the world. 

Scott Dunbar of JPL produced the SeaWinds data. 

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