• DocumentCode
    2673029
  • Title

    A comparison of models for retrieving high wind speeds

  • Author

    He, Yijun ; Shen, Hui ; Guo, Jie ; Perrie, William

  • Author_Institution
    Chinese Acad. of Sci., Qingdao
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    23-28 July 2007
  • Firstpage
    2527
  • Lastpage
    2530
  • Abstract
    Based on polarization ratio from ENVISAT ASAR, we compared the wind vectors retrieved from CMOD5 with alpha= 0.6, alpha = 0.5, our polarization ratio,VV HWGMF with our polarization ratio and HH HWGMF with results from QuikSCAT and buoy, respectively. We found that CMOD5 with alpha= 0.5 polarization ratio is best one for retrieving high wind speed from RADARSAT SAR; and error between QuikSCAT and HH HWGMF is the least. The polarization ratio and GMF for high wind need be improved.
  • Keywords
    remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; wind; Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar; C-band geophysical model function; Environmental Satellite; HH HWGMF; QuikSCAT data; RADARSAT SAR; high wind speeds retrieval; polarization ratio; Geophysical measurements; Oceans; Polarization; Radar measurements; Radiometers; Sea measurements; Sea surface; Spaceborne radar; Wind forecasting; Wind speed; GMF; SAR; high wind vector; polarization ratio;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2007. IGARSS 2007. IEEE International
  • Conference_Location
    Barcelona
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1211-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1212-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423358
  • Filename
    4423358