Ocean wind fields retrieved from the advanced synthetic aperture radar aboard ENVISAT

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 570-576

  Horstmann, Jochen ^a   Koch, Wolfgang ^a   Lehner, Susanne ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b German Space Agency   (Germany)

Author keywords

ENVISAT; Ocean winds; Satellite remote sensing; Spatial Wind Measurements; Synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERICS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; STATISTICAL METHODS; WIND EFFECTS;

ENVISAT; OCEAN WINDS; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL WIND MEASUREMENTS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ENVISAT-1; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WIND DIRECTION; WIND FIELD; WIND MEASUREMENT;

EID: 10844294217     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-004-0098-3     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Alpers W, Brümmer B (1994) Atomospheric boundary layer rolls observed by the synthetic aperture radar aboard the ERS-1 satellite. J Geophys Res 99: 12613-12621
2. ASAR Team (2003) Absolute calibration of ASAR level 1 products generated with PF-ASAR. Technical note, issue 1, rev. 2, enviclvl-eopg-tn-03-0010, ESA publication division, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
3. Dankert H, Horstmann J, Rosenthal W (2003) Ocean winds fields retrieved from radar-image sequences. J Geophys Res 108(C11): 3352, DOI 10.1029/2003JC002056.
4. Drobinski P, Foster RC (2003) On the origin of near-surface streaks in the neutrally stratified planetary boundary layer. Bound-Layer Meteorol 108(2): 247-256
5. Elfouhaily TM (1997) Physical modeling of electro-magnetic backscatter from the ocean surface; application to retrieval of wind fields and wind stress by remote sensing of the marine atmospheric boundary layer, PhD Thesis, Travail de recherche effectué ausein Départment d'Océanographie Spatiale de l'Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER), Brest, France
6. Etling D, Brown RA (1993) Roll vortices in the planetary boundary layer: a review. Boundary-Layer Meteorol 18: 215-248
7. Fetterer F, Gineris D, Wackerman C (1998) Validating a scatterometer wind algorithm for ERS-1 SAR. IEEE Trans Geosci Remote Sens 36(2): 476-492
8. Gerling TG (1986) Structure of the surface wind field from Seasat SAR. J Geophys Res 91: 2308-2320
9. Hersbach H (2003) CMOD5 an improved geophysical model function for ERS C-band scatterometry. International report, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast
10. Koch W (2004) Directional analysis of SAR images aiming at wind direction. IEEE Trans Geosci Remote Sens 42(4): 702-710
11. Horstmann J, Lehner S, Koch W, Tonboe R (2000a) Computation of wind vectors over the ocean using spaceborne synthetic aperture radar. John Hopkins APL Tech Dig 21(1): 100-107
12. Horstmann J, Koch W, Lehner S, Tonboe R (2000b) Wind retrieval over the ocean using synthetic aperture radar with C-band HH polarization. IEEE Trans Geosci Remote Sens 38(5): 2122-2131
13. Horstmann J, Koch W, Lehner S, Tonboe R (2002) Ocean winds from RADARSAT-1 ScanSAR. Can J Remote Sens 28(3): 524-533
14. Horstmann J, Schiller H, Schulz-Stellenfleth J, Lehner S (2003) "Global wind speed retrieval from SAR". IEEE Trans Geosci Remote Sens 41(10): 2277-2286
15. Horstmann J, Koch W (2004) "High resolution ocean surface wind fields retrieval from spaceborne synthetic aperture radars operating at C-band", ESA SP-Series (in press)
16. Lehner S, Horstmann J, Koch W, Rosenthal W (1998) Mesoscale wind measurements using recalibrated ERS SAR images. J Geophys Res 103: 7847-7856, 1998
17. Monaldo F, Thompson DR, Beal RC, Pichel W, Clemente-Colon P (2002) Comparison of SAR-derived wind speed with model predictions and ocean buoy measurements. IEEE Trans Geosci Remote Sens 39(12): 2587-2600
18. Quilfen Y, Chapron B, Elfouhaily TM, Katsaros K, Tourandre J (1998) Observation of tropical cyclones by high-resolution scatterometry. J Geophys Res 103: 7767-7786
19. Stoffelen A, Anderson D (1997) Scatterometer data interpretation: estimation and validation of the transfer function CMOD4. J Geophys Res 102: 5767-5780
20. Thompson DR, Beal RC (2000) Mapping of mesoscale and submesoscale wind fields using synthetic aperture radar. John Hopkins APL Tech Dig 21(1): 58-67
21. Thompson DR, Elfouhaily TM, Chapron B (1998) Polarization ratio for microwave backscattering from the ocean surface at low to moderate incidence angles. In: Proc Int Geosci Remote Sens Symp. 1998, Seattle, USA
22. Unal CMH, Snoeij P, Swart PJF (1991) The polarization-dependent relation between radar backscatter from the ocean surface and surface wind vectors at frequencies between 1 and 18 GHz. IEEE Trans Geosci Remote Sens 29: 621-626
23. Vachon PW, Dobson FW (1996) Validation of wind vector retrieval from ERS-1 SAR images over the ocean. Global Atmos Ocean Syst 5: 177-187
24. Vachon PW, Dobson FW (2000) Wind retrieval from RADARSAT SAR images: selection of a suitable C-band HH polarization wind-retrieval model. Can J Remote Sens 26(4): 306-313
25. Wackerman C, Clemente-Colon P, Pichel W, Li X (2002) A two-scale model to predict C-band VV and HH normalized radar cross-section values over the ocean. Can J Remote Sens 28(3): 367-384