IWRAP: The Imaging Wind and Rain Airborne Profiler for remote sensing of the ocean and the atmospheric boundary layer within tropical cyclones

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1775-1787

  Fernandez, Daniel Esteban ^a,b   Kerr, Elizabeth M ^a   Castells, Antoni ^a,c   Carswell, James R ^d   Frasier, Stephen J ^a   Chang, Paul S ^b   Black, Peter G ^e   Marks, Frank D ^e  

^a University of Massachusetts   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c EUMETSAT   (Germany)

^d 248 E Foothill Blvd   (United States)

^e ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric boundary layer (ABL); Cyclone; Ocean remote sensing; Precipitation; Scatterometry

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DOPPLER RADAR; STORMS; WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYERS (ABL); OCEAN REMOTE SENSING; RESOLUTION MEASUREMENTS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 25144485445     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.851640     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. L. Isaksen and A. Stoffelen, "ERS scatterometer wind data impact on ECMWF's tropical cyclone forecasts," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 38, pp. 1885-1892, Jul. 2000.
2. F. T. Ulaby, R. K. Moore, and A. K. Fung, Microwave Remote Sensing; Active and Passive. Norwood, MA: Artech House, 1982, vol. 1-3.
3. R. K. Moore and A. K. Fung, "Radar determination of winds at sea," Proc. IEEE, vol. 67, pp. 1504-1521, 1979.
4. W. J. Plant, "A two-scale model of short wind-generated waves and scatterometry," J. Geophys. Res., vol. 91, no. C9, pp. 10735-10749, 1986.
5. M. A. Donelan and W. J. Pierson, "Radar scattering and equilibrium ranges in wind-generated waves with applications to scatterometry," J. Geophys. Res., vol. 92, no. C5, pp. 4971-5029, 1987.
6. J. R. Carswell et al., "Airborne scatterometers: Investigating ocean backscatter under low- and high-wind conditions," Proc. IEEE, vol. 82, pp. 1835-1860, Dec. 1994.
7. F. J. Wentz and D. K. Smith, "1999 a model function for the ocean-normalized radar cross section at 14 GHz derived from NSCAT observations," J. Geophys. Res., vol. 104, no. C5, p. 11499, 1999.
8. W. L. Jones, J. Zee, and L. Rice, "NSCAT geophysical algorithm for inferring hurricane ocean surface winds," presented at the 22nd Conf. Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Fort Collins, CO, May 19-23, 1997, World Meeting Number 972 5005.
9. M. H. Freilich and R. S. Dunbar, "Derivation of satellite wind model functions using operational surface wind analyses: An altimeter axample," J. Geophys. Res., vol. 98, pp. 14633-14649, 1993.
10. A. Stoffelen and D. Anderson, "Scatterometer data interpretation: Estimation and validation of the transfer function: CMOD4," J. Geophys. Res., vol. 102, pp. 5767-5780, 1997.
11. W. B. Stiles and H. Y. Simon, "Impact of rain on spaceborne Ku-band wind scatterometer data," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 40, no. 9, Sep. 2002.
12. F. D. Marks and L. K. Shay, "USWRP PDT-5 report, 1998: Tropical cyclones: Forecast problems and associated research opportunities," Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc., vol. 79, no. 2, pp. 305-323.
13. F. D. Marks and R. A. Houze, "Inner core structure of hurricane Alicia from airborne Doppler radar observations," J. Atmos. Sci., vol. 44, no. 9, pp. 1296-1317, May 1987.
14. Y. Z. Liu and M. K. D. Yau, "A multiscale numerical study of hurricane Andrew (1992). Part II: Kinematics and inner-core structures," Mon. Weather Rev., vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 115-126, 1997.
15. J. Wurman and J. Winslow, "Intense sub-kilometer-scale boundary layer rolls observed in hurricane Fran," Science, vol. 280, pp. 555-557, Apr. 1998.
16. E. Knapp, J. Carswell, and C. Swift, "A dual polarization multi-frequency microwave radiometer," in Proc. IGARSS, vol. 7, 2000, pp. 3160-3162.
17. R. Andraka and A. Berkun, "FPGA's make a radar signal processor on a chip a reality," in Proc. 33rd Asilomar Conf. Signals, Systems and Computers, Monterey, CA, Oct. 24-27, 1999.
18. R. J. Doviak and D. S. Zrnic, Doppler Radar and Weather Observations, 2nd ed. New York: Academic, 1984.
19. S. D. Aberson, M. L. Black, M. Mongomery, and M. Bell, "A record wind measurement in hurricane Isabel: Direct evidence of an eyewall mesocyclone," presented at the AMS 26th Conf. Hurricanes and Tropical Metereology, Miami, FL, May 2004.
20. J. Persing, M. Montgometry, and R. Tuleya, "Environmental interactive GFDL hurricane model for hurricane Opal," Mon. Weather Rev., vol. 130, pp. 298-317, 2002.
21. P. Reasor, M. Montgomery, F. Marks, and J. Gamache, "Low-wavenumber structure and evolution of the hurricane inner core observed by airborne dual-Doppler radar," Mon. Weather Rev., vol. 128, pp. 1653-1680, 1999.
22. M. T. Montgomery and R. J. Kallenbach, "A theory for vortex Rossby-waves and its application to spiral bands and intensity changes in hurricanes," Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., vol. 123, pp. 435-465, 1997.
23. J. D. Moller and M. T. Montgomery, "Vortex Rossby waves and hurricane intensification in a barotropic model," J. Atmos. Sci., vol. 56, pp. 1674-1687, 1999.
24. M. D. Powell, S. H. Houston, and T. A. Reinhold, "Hurricane Andrew's landfall in South Florida. Part I: Standardizing measurements for documentation of surface wind fields," Weather Forecast., vol. 11, pp. 304-328, 1996.
25. M. D. Powell and S. H. Houston, "Hurricane Andrew's landfall in South Florida. Part II: Surface wind fields and potential real-time applications," Weather Forecast., vol. 11, pp. 329-349, 1996.