Title
Development of an operational microwave sea surface temperature retrieval algorithm
Abstract
The next generation of passive microwave satellites (i.e. WindSat, AMSR on AQUA, and CMIS on NPOESS) provide an opportunity to develop sea surface temperature (SST) products that are less affected by errors due to water vapor, aerosols and clouds than IR-based SST. Although wind effects, undetected rain and large spatial resolution will provide challenges for algorithm developers, the advantages of an all-weather SST product are numerous. As a first step towards a microwave SST product for pre-NPOESS and NPOESS era microwave satellites, a regression-based algorithm has been developed for the TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI). Using brightness temperatures from the 10.7 GHz channels and 1.5 years (January 2000 through July 2001) of buoy matchups, a preliminary algorithm has been developed. Results of this algorithm have been compared to 2 years of independent buoy collocations (January 1998 through December 1999), and are presented with sample SST products. Additional improvements in the accuracy should be gained by the future development of algorithm coefficients based upon radiative transfer models.
Year
DOI
Venue
2002
10.1109/IGARSS.2002.1026849
IGARSS
Keywords
Field
DocType
microwave measurement,oceanographic techniques,remote sensing,amsr,aqua,cmis,npoess,tmi,trmm microwave imager,windsat,aerosol effects,algorithm coefficients,all-weather sst product,brightness temperatures,buoy measurement comparison,cloud effects,operational microwave sea surface temperature retrieval algorithm,passive microwave satellites,radiative transfer models,water vapor effects,wind effects,water vapor,brightness temperature,temperature measurement,spatial resolution,radiative transfer model,sea surface temperature,ocean temperature,polarization,wind speed
Meteorology,Buoy,Microwave,Satellite,WINDSAT,Sea surface temperature,Computer science,Remote sensing,Radiative transfer,NPOESS,Microwave radiometer
Conference
Volume
Citations 
PageRank 
5
0
0.34
References 
Authors
1
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Timothy P. Mavor130.92
Nai-Yu Wang2404.39
Laurence N. Connor3298.28
Paul S. Chang42817.04
richard legeckis500.34