Nicolas Reul and his team have been busy finding ways to better track, monitor, tropical storms and hurricane (high wind speed) from SMOS data as depicted in several previous posts on this very blog.Following this, in the framework of the ESA STSE- SMOS+STORM Evolution project a more exhaustive study was initiated as shown on their page.Just to whet your appetite here is a lengthy but interesting animation showing the wind speed retrievals (click on the picture to get it started) over the Pacific ocean
