Analysis and validation of high-resolution wind from ASCAT

RD Lindsley, JR Blodgett… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The standard ocean wind product from the Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT) is retrieved on
a 12.5-km grid. Ultrahigh-resolution (UHR) processing enables ASCAT wind retrieval on a …

Coastal validation of ultra-high resolution wind vector retrieval from QuikSCAT in the Gulf of Maine

AM Plagge, DC Vandemark… - IEEE Geoscience and …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An experimental 2.5-km ultrahigh-resolution (UHR) wind product provided by NASA's
QuikSCAT scatterometer offers the potential for new access to coastal surface wind …

The ASCAT 6.25-km wind product

J Vogelzang, A Stoffelen, RD Lindsley… - IEEE Journal of …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The advanced scatterometer (ASCAT) wind data processor (AWDP) produces ocean surface
vector winds from radar measurements by the ASCAT on board the Metop satellites. So far …

High-Resolution Coastal Winds From the NOAA Near Real-Time ASCAT Processor

S Soisuvarn, Z Jelenak, PS Chang… - … on Geoscience and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The NOAA near real-time operational advanced scatterometer (ASCAT) ocean surface wind
vectors are produced at 12.5-and 25-km swath grid resolutions. To avoid land contamination …

Comparison of ocean-surface winds retrieved from QuikSCAT scatterometer and Radarsat-1 SAR in offshore waters of the US west coast

X Yang, X Li, Q Zheng, X Gu… - IEEE Geoscience and …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we generate a temporal/spatial matchup data set between QuikSCAT
scatterometer and RADARSAT-1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) wind products in offshore …

Sea surface wind retrieval using the combined scatterometer and altimeter backscatter measurements of the HY-2B satellite

X Li, W Lin, B Liu, Z Wang, B Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sea surface winds derived from the spaceborne rotating pencil-beam scatterometers, such
as the current Chinese Haiyang-2 (HY-2) scatterometers and the Indian SCATSAT-1 …

Land-contamination compensation for QuikSCAT near-coastal wind retrieval

MP Owen, DG Long - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The QuikSCAT scatterometer is used to accurately retrieve winds over the ocean at both
high (2.5 km) and low (25 km) resolutions. In near-coastal regions, land contamination of …

High-resolution ASCAT scatterometer winds near the coast

A Verhoef, M Portabella… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT)
Ocean and Sea Ice Satellite Application Facility delivers operational wind products from the …

Comparison of ocean surface winds from ENVISAT ASAR, MetOp ASCAT scatterometer, buoy measurements, and NOGAPS model

X Yang, X Li, WG Pichel, Z Li - IEEE Transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we perform a comparison of wind speed measurements from the ENVISAT
Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR), the MetOp-A Advanced Scatterometer …

Combined estimates improve high‐resolution coastal wind mapping

DR Thompson, FM Monaldo, RC Beal… - Eos, Transactions …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
The operational meteorological community and the numerical weather prediction community
share a common need for high‐resolution estimates of the near‐surface wind field in data …