Satellite-derived sea surface winds (SSWs) and atmospheric motion vectors (AMVs) over the global ocean, particularly including the areas in and around tropical cyclones (TCs), have been provided in a real-time and continuous manner. More and better information is now derived from technologically improved multiple satellite missions and wind retrieving techniques. The status and prospects of key SSW products retrieved from scatterometers, passive microwave radiometers, synthetic aperture radar, and altimeters as well as AMVs derived by tracking features from multiple geostationary satellites are reviewed here. The quality and error characteristics, limitations, and challenges of satellite wind observations described in the literature, which need to be carefully considered to apply the observations for both operational and scientific uses, i.e., assimilation in numerical weather forecasting, are also described. Additionally, ongoing efforts toward merging them, particularly for monitoring three-dimensional TC wind fields in a real-time and continuous manner and for providing global profiles of high-quality wind observations with the new mission are introduced. Future research is recommended to develop plans for providing more and better SSW and AMV products in a real-time and continuous manner from existing and new missions.

Abstract
 Introduction
 Sea Surface Winds fromMicrowave Remote Sensing
  Wind Measurements from Satellite Scatterometers
  Wind Measurements from Passive MicrowaveRadiometers
  Wind Measurements from Synthetic ApertureRadars
  Wind Measurements from Satellite Altimeters
  Atmospheric Motion Vectors from Feature Tracking
 Multiple-Platform Approaches forTropical Cyclone Wind Retrievals
 Forthcoming Wind MeasurementSensor
 Concluding Remarks andRecommendations
 Acknowledgment
 References

• SungHyun Nam(School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, Research Institute of Oceanography, Seoul National University)
• Kyung-Ae Park(Research Institute of Oceanography, Seoul National University, Department of Earth Science Education, Seoul National University) Corresponding author