Strengths and weakness of remotely sensed winds are discussed, along with the current
capabilities for remotely sensing winds and stress. Future missions are briefly mentioned …

A scatterometer, as an active microwave radar sensor, measures the return of radar waves
in the form of a backscatter coefficient after reflection or scattering from Earth's surface. The …

The China-France Oceanography Satellite (CFOSAT) to be launched in October 2018 will
carry two innovative payloads, ie, the surface wave investigation and monitoring instrument …

The Ku-band (13.5 GHz) based scatterometer is the main sensor onboard Scatterometer
Satellite (SCATSAT-1) launched on 26th September 2016 by Indian Space Research …

Spaceborne scatterometers for ocean surface winds usually operate in Ku-or C-band.
Rather strict quality control (QC) procedures are included in the Ku-band wind retrieval …

To address the growing demand for accurate high-resolution ocean wind forcing from the
ocean modeling community, we develop a new forcing product, ERA*, by means of a …

The triple collocation (TC) technique allows the simultaneous calibration of three
independent, collocated data sources, while providing an estimate of their accuracy. In this …

Rain is the main factor influencing the Ku-band scatterometer wind quality. The operational
quality control (QC) scheme of the scatterometer wind retrieval procedure cannot effectively …

The operational wind processor for the Ku-band scatterometers onboard HY-2 satellite
series uses a quality control (QC) scheme based on the maximum likelihood estimator …

Observations in thermal infrared (IR) contribute substantially to the understanding of the
global fluxes of energy and matter between Earth's surface, ocean and atmosphere. Key …