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On Extreme Winds at L-Band with the SMAP Synthetic Aperture Radar

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: On Extreme Winds at L-Band with the SMAP Synthetic Aperture Radar
المؤلفون: Alexander G. Fore, Simon H. Yueh, Bryan W. Stiles, Wenqing Tang, Akiko K. Hayashi
المصدر: Remote Sensing; Volume 11; Issue 9; Pages: 1093
بيانات النشر: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
سنة النشر: 2019
المجموعة: MDPI Open Access Publishing
مصطلحات موضوعية: SMAP, radar, SAR, ocean winds, ocean vector winds, extreme winds, cyclone, hurricane
الوصف: In this letter, we discuss some observations of the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission’s high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) for extreme winds and tropical cyclones. We find that the L-band cross-polarized backscatter is far more sensitive to wind speed at extreme winds than the co-polarized backscatter and it is essential to observations of extreme winds with L-band SAR. We introduce a cyclone wind speed retrieval algorithm and apply it to the limited SMAP SAR dataset of cyclones. We show that the SMAP SAR instrument is capable of measuring extreme winds up to the category 5 (70 m/s) wind speed regime providing unique capabilities as compared to traditional scatterometers with C and Ku-band radars.
نوع الوثيقة: text
وصف الملف: application/pdf
اللغة: English
العلاقة: Ocean Remote Sensing; https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs11091093Test
DOI: 10.3390/rs11091093
الإتاحة: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11091093Test
حقوق: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0Test/
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.F2149671
قاعدة البيانات: BASE