Estimating tropical cyclone surface winds: Current status, emerging technologies, historical evolution, and a look to the future

JA Knaff, CR Sampson, ME Kucas, CJ Slocum… - … Cyclone Research and …, 2021 - Elsevier
This article provides a review of tropical cyclone (TC) surface wind estimation from an
operational forecasting perspective. First, we provide a summary of operational forecast …

[HTML][HTML] Capability of the SMAP mission to measure ocean surface winds in storms

T Meissner, L Ricciardulli… - Bulletin of the American …, 2017 - journals.ametsoc.org
Capability of the SMAP Mission to Measure Ocean Surface Winds in Storms in: Bulletin of the
American Meteorological Society Volume 98 Issue 8 (2017) Jump to Content Jump to Main …

The NOAA track-wise wind retrieval algorithm and product assessment for CyGNSS

F Saïd, Z Jelenak, J Park… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel approach in addressing cyclone global navigation satellite system (CyGNSS)
intersatellite and GPS-related calibration issues is proposed, based on a track-wise bias …

Sea surface freshening inferred from SMOS and ARGO salinity: Impact of rain

J Boutin, N Martin, G Reverdin, X Yin, F Gaillard - Ocean Science, 2013 - os.copernicus.org
The sea surface salinity (SSS) measured from space by the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity
(SMOS) mission has recently been revisited by the European Space Agency first campaign …

Wind profile satellite observation requirements and capabilities

A Stoffelen, A Benedetti, R Borde… - Bulletin of the …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
The Aeolus mission objectives are to improve numerical weather prediction (NWP) and
enhance the understanding and modeling of atmospheric dynamics on global and regional …

Toward an improved wind quality control for RapidScat

W Lin, M Portabella - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Quality control (QC) is an essential part of the scatterometer wind retrieval. In the current
pencil-beam scatterometer wind processor (PenWP), a maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) …

[HTML][HTML] Rain footprints on C-band synthetic aperture radar images of the ocean-Revisited

W Alpers, B Zhang, A Mouche, K Zeng… - Remote Sensing of …, 2016 - Elsevier
It is well known that rain leaves footprints on the sea surface that sometimes become visible
on synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. Rain cells can easily be detected on SAR images …

Offshore winds and wind energy production estimates derived from ASCAT, OSCAT, numerical weather prediction models and buoys–A comparative study for the …

D Carvalho, A Rocha, M Gómez-Gesteira, CS Santos - Renewable Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
Different offshore wind datasets were compared with buoys measurements in the Iberian
Peninsula Atlantic coast, aiming to assess the best alternatives to ocean surface measured …

A novel azimuth cutoff implementation to retrieve sea surface wind speed from SAR imagery

V Corcione, G Grieco, M Portabella… - … on Geoscience and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) azimuth cutoff method is thoroughly revised
and a new and general implementation is proposed. The key roles of the pixel spacing, the …

Evaluating and extending the ocean wind climate data record

FJ Wentz, L Ricciardulli, E Rodriguez… - IEEE journal of …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Satellite microwave sensors, both active scatterometers and passive radiometers, have
been systematically measuring near-surface ocean winds for nearly 40 years, establishing …