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TI SMAP L-Band Passive Microwave Observations Of Ocean Surface Wind During Severe Storms
BT 
AF YUEH, Simon H.
   FORE, Alexander G.
   TANG, Wenqing
   HAYASHI, Akiko
   STILES, Bryan
   REUL, Nicolas
   WENG, Yonghui
   ZHANG, Fuqing
AS 1:1;2:1;3:1;4:1;5:1;6:2;7:3,4;8:3,4;
FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:PDG-ODE-LOPS-SIAM;7:;8:;
C1 CALTECH, Jet Prop Lab, 4800 Oak Grove Dr, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA.
   Inst Francais Rech Exploitat Mer IFREMER, Lab Oceanog Phys & Spatial LOPS, F-16801 Plouzane, France.
   Penn State Univ, Dept Meteorol, 503 Walker Bldg, University Pk, PA 16802 USA.
   Penn State Univ, Ctr Adv Data Assimilat & Predictabil Tech, University Pk, PA 16802 USA.
C2 CALTECH, USA
   IFREMER, FRANCE
   UNIV PENN STATE, USA
   UNIV PENN STATE, USA
SI TOULON
SE PDG-ODE-LOPS-SIAM
UM LOPS
IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018
   copubli-int-hors-europe
IF 4.942
TC 60
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00348/45919/45611.pdf
LA English
DT Article
DE ;Hurricane;microwave remote sensing;ocean surface wind;radar;radiometer
AB The L-band passive microwave data from the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory are investigated for remote sensing of ocean surface winds during severe storms. The surface winds of Joaquin derived from the real-time analysis of the Center of Advanced Data Assimilation and Predictability Techniques in the Penn State University support the linear extrapolation of the Aquarius and SMAP Geophysical Model Functions (GMFs) to hurricane force winds. We apply the SMAP and Aquarius GMFs to the retrieval of ocean surface wind vectors from the SMAP radiometer data to take advantage of SMAP’s two-look geometry. The SMAP radiometer wind speeds are compared with the winds from other satellites and numerical weather models for validation. The root-mean-square-difference (RMSD) with WindSat or SSMIS is 1.7 m/s below 20 m/s wind speeds. The RMSD with the ECMWF direction is 18 degrees for wind speeds between 12 and 30 m/s. We find that the correlation is sufficiently high between the maximum wind speeds retrieved by SMAP with 60 km resolution and the best track peak winds estimated by the National Hurricane Center and Joint Typhoon Warning Center to allow them to be estimated by SMAP with a correlation coefficient of 0.8 and an underestimation by 8 to 18 percent on average, which is likely due to the effects of spatial averaging. There is also a very good agreement with the airborne Stepped Frequency Radiometer (SFMR) wind speeds with an average RMSD of 4.6 m/s for wind speeds in the range of 20 to 40 m/s.
PY 2016
PD DEC
SO Ieee Transactions On Geoscience And Remote Sensing
SN 0196-2892
PU Ieee-inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc
VL 54
IS 12
UT 000385713500045
BP 7339
EP 7350
DI 10.1109/TGRS.2016.2600239
ID 45919
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