Fourier transform of "nabla matrix"

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I'm reading the paper: http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.cmp/1103941230.

I cannnot understand a sentence after the equation (9), that is:

Therefore the Fourier transform of $\nabla u$ and $\omega$ satisyfy $(\nabla u)^{\hat{}}(\xi)=S(\xi)\hat{\omega}(\xi)$, where $S$ is a matrix which is bounded independent of $\xi$, ......

(Here $u$ is a vector valued function, and $\omega=\nabla \times u$ is the vorticity of that.)

My questions are as follows:

a) How can we define the Fourier transform of $\nabla u$ and $\omega$ ?

b) How can we derive the relation $(\nabla u)^{\hat{}}(\xi)=S(\xi)\hat{\omega}(\xi)$ from (9) ?

I think $\omega$ is a vector and $\nabla u$ is a matrix. So the equation the relation $(\nabla u)^{\hat{}}(\xi)=S(\xi)\hat{\omega}(\xi)$ doesn't look well-defined.

Please show me the meaning of these.

Thank you.