Paper Info
Title
Retrieval of Sea Surface Temperature From HY-2A Scanning Microwave Radiometer
Abstract
The scanning microwave radiometer (RM) onboard the Haiyang-2A (HY-2A) satellite has low-frequency channels with the capability of observing sea surface temperature (SST) from space. To improve the accuracy of the HY-2A RM SST data, the intercalibration of RM brightness temperature (BT) and SST retrieval were carried out. Based on the simulated BTs using the microwave radiative transfer model (RTM), the double-difference approach was applied to perform the intercalibration of RM BTs for the 10.7, 18.7, 23.8, and 37.0 GHz channels, with the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Microwave Imager (GMI) as the reference. The RM 6.6-GHz BTs were corrected with the RTM modeled BT on account of a lack of the similar channel in GMI. The comparison of RM original BTs with GMI and modeled BTs showed large biases and the strong dependence on latitude. We obtained latitude-dependent coefficients using robust linear regression for RM BT correction and applied recalibrated RM BTs for the SST retrieval. The validation of the RM retrieved SST showed the bias of −0.12 °C and the robust standard deviation (RSD) of 1.10 °C compared with buoy SST in the region between 70°S and 70°N. In the tropical and subtropical regions, the bias was −0.12 °C and the RSD was 0.93 °C. In addition, the relationships between the SST difference and the sea surface and atmospheric parameters were investigated. Both statistics of validation results and error analysis indicated significant improvement of RM SST accuracy.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/TGRS.2020.2980975
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Microwave radiometry,Calibration,Microwave imaging,Microwave theory and techniques,Microwave measurement,Ocean temperature,Sea surface
Journal
58
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
10
0196-2892
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mingkun Liu102.37
Lei Guan223.79
Ge Chen381.55
wei zhao47128.69