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PT J
TI Direct measurements of ocean surface velocity from space: Interpretation and validation - art. no. C07008
BT 
AF CHAPRON, Bertrand
   COLLARD, Fabrice
   ARDHUIN, Fabrice
AS 1:1;2:1,2;3:3;
FF 1:PDG-DOP-DCB-OPS-LOS;2:PDG-DOP-DCB-OPS-LOS;3:;
C1 IFREMER, Ctr Brest, Lab Oceanog Spatiale, F-29280 Plouzane, France.
   BOOST Technol, F-29280 Plouzane, France.
   Ctr Mil Oceanog, Serv Hydrog & Oceanog Marine, F-29609 Brest, France.
C2 IFREMER, FRANCE
   BOOST TECHNOL, FRANCE
   SHOM, FRANCE
SI BREST
SE PDG-DOP-DCB-OPS-LOS
IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018
   copubli-france
IF 2.784
TC 182
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2005/publication-1704.pdf
LA English
DT Article
DE ;Wind data;Wind speed;boundary layer;Ocean atmosphere system;Satellite sensing;ESA satellite, ENVISAT;Wind fields;Sea surface roughness;Inversions;Radar echoes;Tidal currents;Gulf Stream;Synthetic aperture radar;Wind direction;Surface currents;Radar wind measurements
AB [1] The median Doppler shift of radar echoes is analyzed in measurements by ENVISAT's Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) over the ocean. This Doppler centroid differs from a predicted signal based on the predicted motion of the satellite and Earth. This anomaly, converted to a surface Doppler velocity U-D, appears to be of geophysical origin. Two wide-swath images over the Gulf Stream around Cape Hatteras suggest that U-D contains high-resolution information on surface currents, while on a global scale, UD is found to vary with the wind speed in the range direction. A simple quantitative forward model is proposed, based on a practical two-scale decomposition of the surface geometry and kinematics. The model represents the effect of the wind through the wave spectrum, and gives U-D approximate to gamma U-10 parallel to + U-c parallel to, with U-10 parallel to and U-c parallel to as the 10 m wind speed and quasi-Eulerian current in the line of sight of the radar projected on the sea surface, respectively, and g as a coefficient function of the wind speed, wave development, and radar geometry. It is found that for an incidence angle of 23 degrees, gamma approximate to 0.3 for moderate winds and fully developed seas. This model is validated with a global data set of ASAR Wave Mode observations, with colocated model winds, acquired over the global ocean during the years 2003 and 2004. The Doppler signal therefore provides the signed parameter U-D that can be used to reduce the wind direction ambiguity in the inversion of high-resolution wind fields from SAR imagery. A qualitative validation of current effects is shown for the English Channel where tidal currents dominate. Thus it should be possible to combine this previously ignored geophysical Doppler signal with traditional information on sea surface roughness, in order to provide very high resolution wind and current fields.
PY 2005
PD JUN
SO Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR)  Oceans
SN 0148-0227
PU American Geophysical Union
VL 110
IS C7
UT 000230837100004
DI 10.1029/2004JC002809
ID 1704
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