A method of determining surface pressures in oceanic storms systems using ERS-1 scatterometer data is employed to determine the lowest pressures in 25 storms. This method uses the surface winds as a lower boundary condition on a planetary boundary layer model to determine gradient winds, and thereby pressure gradients. An integration from the uniform field outside the storm to the center provides an estimate of the low pressure. The values are compared to ECMWF analyses in each case. There is good agreement, with some expected differences.
A UNIX-style compressed Postscript file (714K) for the paper is here .