Up-to-Downwave Asymmetry of the CFOSAT SWIM Fluctuation Spectrum for Wave Direction Ambiguity Removal
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Date | 2022 | ||||||||||||
Language | English | ||||||||||||
Author(s) | Li Huimin![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Affiliation(s) | 1 : School of Marine Sciences, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China 2 : State Key Laboratory of Satellite Ocean Environment Dynamics, Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Hangzhou, China 3 : Laboratoire Atmosphére, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS), UVSQ, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris-Saclay, Sorbonne Université, Guyancourt, France 4 : IFREMER, Univ. Brest, CNRS, IRD, Laboratoire d’Oceanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS), Plouzané, France 5 : ACRI-ST, Guyancourt, France |
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Source | Ieee Transactions On Geoscience And Remote Sensing (0196-2892) (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)), 2022 , Vol. 60 , N. 5103012 , P. 1-12 | ||||||||||||
DOI | 10.1109/TGRS.2021.3086483 | ||||||||||||
WOS© Times Cited | 3 | ||||||||||||
Keyword(s) | Azimuth, Modulation, Spaceborne radar, Backscatter, Sea measurements, Sea surface, Radar measurements, China-France Oceanography Satellite (CFOSAT) surface wave investigation and monitoring (SWIM), up-to-downwave asymmetry of fluctuation spectrum, wave direction ambiguity removal | ||||||||||||
Abstract | The surface wave investigation and monitoring (SWIM) aboard the China-France Oceanography Satellite (CFOSAT), a pioneer conically scanning wave spectrometer, was successfully launched on October 29, 2018. Its innovative configuration composed of one nadir and five rotating near-nadir beams is designed to simultaneously observe the directional wave spectrum at a global scale. In this study, we systematically implement the spectral analysis of the radar backscattering with the periodogram technique to obtain the fluctuation spectrum for each azimuth direction. The 2-D fluctuation spectrum of the three spectral beams ( θ=6∘ , 8°, and 10°) combines all the azimuth directions within one entire rotation of 360°. The case study demonstrates that the wave features (peak wavelength and direction) are roughly consistent between the estimated fluctuation spectrum and the collocated WaveWatch III wave slope spectrum. A marked up-to-downwave asymmetry of the fluctuation spectrum with larger spectral level in the upwave direction for all the three spectral beams is observed. A ratio is defined between the fluctuation spectrum within the [0°, 180°] sector relative to the [180°, 360°] sector. Statistics display that this ratio is greater than 1 when it denotes the up-to-downwave ratio and smaller than 1 for the down-to-upwave ratio. This observed spectrum asymmetry is linked to the asymmetric modulation from upwind to downwind. In addition, we employ such finding to help remove the 180° wave direction ambiguity from a practical point of view. Preliminary results of the direction ambiguity removal display a bias of 41.3°, 40.6°, and 36.7° for the beams. The 10° beam shows slightly better performance compared to the other two beams in terms of bias and standard deviation. This shall lay a strong basis for the operational implementation of such algorithm to resolve the direction ambiguity. |
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