Hurricane imaging radiometer wind speed and rain rate retrieval: Part-2. Analysis of retrieval accuracy

Author

Amarin, Ruba A. ; Jones, Linwood ; Johnson, James ; Ruf, Chris ; Miller, Tim ; Chen, Shuyi

Author_Institution

Central Florida Remote Sensing Lab., Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

1-4 March 2010

Firstpage

200

Lastpage

204

Abstract

This paper describes the end-to-end simulation of the new HIRAD, which will provide improved hurricane surveillance. This paper (part-2 of 2) evaluates the HIRAD instrument performance in retrieving hurricane-force wind speeds in the presence of intense rain. Examples of retrieved hurricane wind speed and rain rate images are presented, and comparisons of the retrieved parameters with the MM5 numerical hurricane model data are made. Statistical results are presented over a broad range of wind and rain conditions over the full measurement swath.

Keywords

atmospheric measuring apparatus; geophysical image processing; radiometry; rain; storms; wind; HIRAD instrument; MM5 numerical hurricane model data; hurricane imaging radiometer; hurricane surveillance; hurricane wind speed; rain rate images; rain rate retrieval; retrieval accuracy; Antennas; Atmospheric modeling; Brightness temperature; Hurricanes; Microwave radiometry; Rain; Wind speed; HIRAD; hurricanes; imaging; rain rate; retrievals; wind speed;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment (MicroRad), 2010 11th Specialist Meeting on

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8120-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-8121-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MICRORAD.2010.5559560

Filename

5559560