Validation and accuracy analysis of wind products from scatterometer onboard the HY-2B satellite

The Chinese marine dynamic environment satellite HY-2B was launched in October 2018 and carries a Ku-band scatterometer. This paper focuses on the accuracies of HY-2B scatterometer wind data during the period from November 2018 to May 2021. The HY-2B wind data are validated against global moored buoys operated by the U.S. National Data Buoy Center and Tropical Atmosphere Ocean, numerical model data by the National Centers for Environmental Prediction, and the Advanced Scatterometer data issued b...     

海洋二号卫星微波散射计后向散射系数业务化面元匹配算法

本文提出了一种可业务化运行的海洋二号卫星散射计面元匹配方法,该算法主要用于将按时序排列的后向散射系数及相关参数投影到相应风矢量单元。面元匹配方法主要包括地面网格划分和后向散射系数观测结果重采样两个关键步骤。为简化计算,本文采用了以星下点轨迹为中心,以顺轨向及交轨向为坐标轴的地面网格划分方式。在重采样过程中,本文提出了一种“三点标定”重采样方法,利用观测脉冲的地面足印中心,星下点轨迹的起点,以及过地面足印中心做星下点轨迹垂线的交点,三点形成的直角三角形来计算每个后向散射系数观测结果在地面网格中对应的坐标。该直角三角形的两直角边分别对应观测脉冲在顺轨向和交轨向的坐标。同时,为减少由于星下点数据空间分布不连续引起的面元匹配误差,在采用三点标定法进行重采样之前,首先对星下点时空分布不连续的区域对时间插值,然后以时间为坐标,对星下点经度、纬度分别进行内插。对风矢量面元位置分布和风矢量反演精度等分析表明,本文提出的面元匹配算法,可在满足高质量海面风场反演的要求。     

HY-2B卫星散射计神经网络多区间风速反演

以欧洲中期天气预报中心ECMWF(European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts)的ERA5风场数据为真实风速参考值,利用HY-2B卫星散射计L2A数据,使用反向传播神经网络方法对风速进行了反演,分别建立了中高风速、中低风速和全风速反演模型.与基于NSCAT-4地球...     

SeaWinds散射计风矢量解空间中图像椭圆总灰度值对风矢量反演误差的约束效应

已有的SeaWinds散射计反演结果误差评价包括两种方法:一是与其他数据来源进行对比,如与数值气象预报产品或浮标风场数据对比;二是从风场反演结果的空间一致性进行判断.文中采用二维几何中心矩定量描述象元解空间中模糊解区域(与真解最接近的模糊解区域)的图谱特征,如图像椭圆的主轴倾角、长短轴比以及总灰度值;研究了总灰度值与风矢量反演误差的关系.结果表明,当总灰度值大于某一阈值时,风矢量反演误差将被限制在一个较小的范围之内.根据图像椭圆总灰度的这一特性,设计了一种新的基于总灰度约束特性的滤波算法.通过与浮标风矢量     

Detection and monitoring of new-ice in the East Greenland Sea using the SeaWinds scatterometer

Space borne radar scatterometers are primarily designed to measure the wind vector over the world ocean; yet they also provide useful information on sea ice type and extent. In this paper, it is shown how the SeaWinds scatterometer can be used to detect new sea ice at the very beginning of its growth. Taking advantage of the very good coverage of the East Greenland Sea by SeaWinds on board the QuickSCAT satellite it has been possible to detect the early stage of formation of the sea ice peninsula, named the Odden, and to monitor its evolution during March 2001. The early sea ice detection has been validated by using RADARSAT Synthetic Aperture Radar scenes. It is also shown that microwave radiometers, such as the Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I), which are used as standard sensors for sea ice monitoring, do not detect the very early stage of sea ice growth and lag behind new sea ice occurrence by about twelve to twenty four hours.     

Verification of the wind-driven transport in the North Pacific subtropical gyre using gridded wind-stress products

Wind-stress products supplied by satellite scatterometers carried the European Remote-sensing Satellite (ERS) and QuikSCAT (QSCAT), together with numerical weather predictions from the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (ECMWF) and the National Centre for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) were used to estimate wind-driven transports of the North Pacific subtropical gyre. At 30°N, we compared the wind-driven transports with geostrophic transports calculated from World Ocean Database 2005. The wind-driven transports for QSCAT and NCEP are in good agreement with the geostrophic transport within reasonable error, except for a regional difference in the eastern part of the section. The difference in the eastern part suggests an anti-cyclonic deviation of the geostrophic transport, resulting from an anti-cyclonic anomalous flow in the surface layer. It is suggested that this anomalous flow is the Eastern Gyral, produced by the thermohaline process associated with the formation of the Eastern Subtropical Mode Water. To investigate the validity of QSCAT and NCEP data, we examined whether or not the Sverdrup transports for these products are consistent with the transport of the western boundary current estimated by past studies. The net southward transport, given by the sum of the Sverdrup transport for QSCAT and NCEP and the thermohaline transport, agrees well with the net northward transport of the western boundary current. From this result, together with the fact that the wind-driven transports for these products are in good agreement with the geostrophic transport, we conclude that the Sverdrup balance can hold in the North Pacific subtropical gyre.     

Comparison of sea surface wind field measured by HY-2A scatterometer and WindSat in global oceans

In this study, we present a comprehensive comparison of the sea surface wind ?eld measured by scatterometer(Ku-band scatterometer) aboard the Chinese HY-2 A satellite and the full-polarimetric radiometer WindSat aboard the Coriolis satellite. The two datasets cover a four-year period from October2011 to September 2015 in the global oceans. For the sea surface wind speed, the statistical comparison indicates good agreement between the HY-2 A scatterometer and WindSat with a bias of nearly 0 m/s and a root mean square error(RMSE) of 1.13 m/s. For the sea surface wind direction, a bias of 1.41° and an RMSE of 20.39° were achieved after excluding the data collocated with opposing directions. Furthermore,discrepancies in sea surface wind speed measured by the two sensors in the global oceans were investigated.It is found that the larger dif ferences mainly appear in the westerlies in the both hemispheres. Both the bias and RMSE show latitude dependence, i.e., they have signi?cant latitudinal ?uctuations.     

Snowmelt detection from QuikSCAT and ASCAT satellite radar scatterometer data across the Alaskan North Slope

The timing of seasonal snowmelt in high-latitude tundra has implications ranging from local biological productivity to global atmospheric circulation, yet remains difficult to quantify, particularly at large spatial scales. Snowmelt detection in such remote polar environments is possible using satellite-based microwave scatterometers, such as NASA’s QuikSCAT. QuikSCAT measured scattering in Ku-band, which is sensitive to snowmelt signals, from 1999 until the antenna failed in 2009. The Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT) (2006–2021 (projected) operational), which operates at C-band, may be able to extend the QuikSCAT record, but existing techniques fail to adequately monitor tundra environments. Here, we designed a departure threshold algorithm to produce a consistent 15-year time series of melt onset for the tundra of the Alaskan North Slope, using the overlap period for the enhanced resolution datasets to calibrate the ASCAT melt detection record against QuikSCAT. We produced a time series of day of year of melt onset for 4.45 km x 4.45 km grid cells on the Alaskan North Slope from 2000–2014. Time series validation with in situ mean daily air temperature produced mean R² values of 0.75 (QuikSCAT) and 0.72 (ASCAT). We qualitatively observed a difference between early-season melt, which occurred rapidly and was driven by strong wind events, and more typical melt, which occurred gradually along a latitudinal gradient. We speculate that future melt timing will have greater frequency of early-season onset as climate change destabilizes the high-latitude atmosphere.     

基于降雨率的GMF+RAIN模型构建及在台风风场反演中的应用

首先选取2006年QuikSCAT散射计扫描的3次台风个例("珊珊"、"摩羯"及"象神"),分析其获取的台风区域雷达后向散射截面值(σ^o)在降雨影响下的分布特征.然后依据大气辐射传输理论,考虑降雨对雷达后向散射截面值的影响,引进两个不同形式的降雨辐射传输模型(简称为SY和AMSR模型),并将这两个降雨辐射传输模型分别与NSCAT2模型函数相结合,构建了适合降雨情况的地球物理模型函数(简称为GMF+RAIN).最后,在GMF+RAIN模型的基础上,采用二维变分结合多解方案     

基于微波散射实验的油种识别研究

海上溢油来源复杂,溢油种类多样,正确识别溢油类型对于溢油应急的快速反应具有重要意义。合成孔径雷达(synthetic aperture radar,SAR)具有全天时全天候的监测优势,在海面溢油监测中发挥着主力军作用,但在油种识别方面存在不足。利用C波段全极化散射计对柴油、原油、油水混合物和棕榈油进行外场实验观测,探究微波识别油膜的敏感特征参数,并将敏感特征参数应用于海上油膜实验获取的SAR图像进行油种识别。结果表明,在垂直(vertical transmission vertical reception,VV)极化方式下的油水差(?σ⁰)可以有效识别植物油和矿物油;基于d B和linear units表达的后向散射系数(NRCS)计算的抑制比(DR)在垂直(VV)和水平(horizontal transmission horizontal reception,HH)极化方式下可以有效识别植物油和矿物油,并且在交叉(vertical transmission horizontal reception/horizontal transmission vertical...