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Abstract | ||
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Surface wind vector measurements over the oceans are vital for scientists and forecasters to understand the Earth's global weather and climate. In the last two decades, operational measurements of global ocean wind speeds were obtained from passive microwave radiometers (Special Sensor Microwave/ Imagers); and over this period, full ocean surface wind vector data were obtained from several National Aeronautics and Space Administration and European Space Agency scatterometry missions. However, since SeaSat-A in 1978, there have not been other combined active and passive wind measurements on the same satellite until the launch of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Advanced Earth Observing Satellite-II in 2002. This mission provided a unique data set of coincident measurements between the SeaWinds scatterometer and the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR). The AMSR instrument measured linearly polarized brightness temperatures (TB) over the ocean. Although these measurements contained wind direction information, the overlying atmospheric influence obscured this signal and made wind direction retrievals not feasible. However, for radiometer channels between 10 and 37 GHz, a certain linear combination of vertical and horizontal brightness temperatures causes the atmospheric dependence to cancel and surface parameters such as wind speed and direction and sea surface temperature to dominate the resulting signal. In this paper, an empirical relationship between AMSR TB's (specifically A . TBV - TBH) and surface wind vectors (inferred from SeaWinds' retrievals) is established for three microwave frequencies: 10, 18, and 37 GHz. This newly developed wind vector model function for microwave radiometers can serve as a basis for wind vector retrievals either separately or in combination with active scatterometer measurements. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2007 | 10.1109/TGRS.2007.895418 | IEEE T. Geoscience and Remote Sensing |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
scatterometry,radiometry,microwave radiometry,atmospheric techniques,amsr,seasat-a,seawinds scatterometer,ad 2002,wind direction,frequency 37 ghz,frequency 10 ghz,european space agency scatterometry missions,sea surface temperature,ocean surface wind vector model function,wind,climate,active and passive microwave,national aeronautics and space administration scatterometry missions,global ocean wind speeds,advanced microwave scanning radiometer,frequency 18 ghz,ad 1978,japan aerospace exploration agency advanced earth observing satellite-ii,weather,ocean surface wind vector,special sensor microwave/imagers,brightness temperatures,spaceborne microwave radiometer,atmospheric temperature,brightness temperature,wind speed,microwave radiometer,vector measure,earth observation | Meteorology,Satellite,Wind speed,Sea surface temperature,Remote sensing,Atmospheric temperature,Scatterometer,Wind direction,Mathematics,Radiometer,Microwave radiometer | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
45 | 10 | 0196-2892 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
4 | 0.52 | 6 |
Authors | ||
3 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Seubson Soisuvarn | 1 | 33 | 7.98 |
| Z.. Jelenak | 2 | 5 | 1.26 |
| W. L. Jones | 3 | 11 | 1.31 |