Effect of Precipitation on Sea Surface Wind Scatterometry

  • Yang, Jilong (Institute of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Ssytem, Peking University) ;
  • Zhang, Xuehu (Institute of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Ssytem, Peking University) ;
  • Chen, Xiuwan (Institute of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Ssytem, Peking University) ;
  • Esteban, Daniel (University of Massachusetts at Amherst) ;
  • McLaughlin, David (University of Massachusetts at Amherst) ;
  • Carswell, Jim (University of Massachusetts at Amherst) ;
  • Chang, Paul (NOAA NESDIS) ;
  • Black, Peter (NOAA HRD) ;
  • Ke, Yinghai (Institute of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Ssytem, Peking University)
  • 발행 : 2003.11.03

초록

A set of microwave remote sensing data collected with the newly developed UMass Imaging Wind and Rain Airborne Profiler (IWRAP) during the 2002 Atlantic Hurricane Season was analyzed to further our understanding of the effect of precipitation on scatterometer wind vector retrieval. Coincident surface wind speed and precipitation measurements were provided by the UMass Simultaneous Frequency Microwave Radiometer (SFMR). The differences between the wind estimations from IWRAP and SFMR under precipitation conditions of 0-100mm/hr and wind speed of 0-60m/s was calculated, from which the effect of precipitation on the wind vector retrieval using scatterometry is analyzed qualitatively.

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