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Title
  • en Evaluation of Marine Surface Wind Speed Observations From AMSR2 on GCOM-W Satellite
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  • en © 2017 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.
Subject
  • Other en Advanced microwave scanning radiometer 2 (AMSR2)
  • Other en global change observation mission-water satellite (GCOM-W)
  • Other en marine surface wind
  • Other en microwave radiometer
  • Other en validation
Description
  • Abstract en Observations of marine surface scalar wind speeds from the advanced microwave scanning radiometer 2 (AMSR2), onboard the global change observation mission-water satellite (GCOM-W), were evaluated by comparisons with offshore moored buoy measurements, output from the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecast Reanalysis Interim, and observations by the RapidScat (RSCAT) scatterometer onboard the International Space Station. In general, the AMSR2 wind speeds agreed well with the reference data. The root mean square difference between the AMSR2 and buoy measurements was 1.09 ms(-1), which is slightly larger than the mission goal of 1 ms(-1). Underestimation at low wind speeds (< 5ms(-1)) was found in the comparisons. The AMSR2 wind speeds were found to contain a slight scan bias; namely, wind speeds in the right swath are higher than those in the left swath by 0.2-0.3 ms(-1). Systematic dependence of the wind speed bias on the wind direction relative to the AMSR2 looking direction was found in a residual analysis. Results of the triple collocation analysis suggest that the random errors in the AMSR2 wind speed are less than 1 ms(-1) and are smaller than those in the outputs from the numerical weather prediction (NWP) models, if random errors in the reference wind data (buoy, NWP, and RSCAT) are considered explicitly.
Publisher en IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
Date
    Issued2017-04-12
Language
  • eng
Resource Type journal article
Version Type AM
Identifier HDL http://hdl.handle.net/2115/68313
Relation
  • isVersionOf DOI https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2017.2685432
Journal
    • PISSN 1939-1404
      • en IEEE journal of selected topics in applied earth observations & remote sensing
      • Volume Number10 Issue Number9 Page Start3955 Page End3962
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