Progress in scatterometer application

WT Liu - Journal of oceanography, 2002‏ - Springer
Progress in the scientific application of space-based scatterometer data over the past two
decades is reviewed. There has been continuous improvement in coverage, resolution, and …

The Legacy of Scatterometers: Review of applications and perspective

S Singh, RK Tiwari, V Sood, R Kaur… - IEEE Geoscience and …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A scatterometer, as an active microwave radar sensor, measures the return of radar waves
in the form of a backscatter coefficient after reflection or scattering from Earth's surface. The …

Performance metrics for climate models

PJ Gleckler, KE Taylor… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2008‏ - Wiley Online Library
Objective measures of climate model performance are proposed and used to assess
simulations of the 20th century, which are available from the Coupled Model …

Operational space technology for global vegetation assessment

FN Kogan - Bulletin of the American meteorological society, 2001‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
The main goal of global agriculture and the grain sector is to feed 6 billion people. Frequent
droughts causing grain shortages, economic disturbances, famine, and losses of life limit the …

Evaluation of wind vectors observed by QuikSCAT/SeaWinds using ocean buoy data

N Ebuchi, HC Graber… - Journal of Atmospheric and …, 2002‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
Wind vectors observed by the QuikSCAT/SeaWinds satellite mission are validated by
comparing with wind and wave data from ocean buoys. Effects of oceanographic and …

[HTML][HTML] Estimating ocean vector winds and currents using a Ka-band pencil-beam Doppler scatterometer

E Rodríguez, A Wineteer, D Perkovic-Martin, T Gál… - Remote Sensing, 2018‏ - mdpi.com
Ocean surface currents and winds are tightly coupled essential climate variables, and, given
their short time scales, observing them at the same time and resolution is of great interest …

NASA scatterometer provides global ocean‐surface wind fields with more structures than numerical weather prediction

WT Liu, W Tang, PS Polito - Geophysical Research Letters, 1998‏ - Wiley Online Library
The major differences between monthly‐mean ocean‐surface wind fields derived from the
observations of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Scatterometer …

SeaWinds validation with research vessels

MA Bourassa, DM Legler, JJ O'Brien… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2003‏ - Wiley Online Library
The accuracy of the SeaWinds scatterometer's vector winds is assessed through comparison
with research vessel observations. Factors that contribute to uncertainty in scatterometer …

The effects of marine winds from scatterometer data on weather analysis and forecasting

R Atlas, RN Hoffman, SM Leidner… - Bulletin of the …, 2001‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
Satellite scatterometer observations of the ocean surface wind speed and direction improve
the depiction of storms at sea. Over the ocean, scatterometer surface winds are deduced …

An introduction to the near–real–time QuikSCAT data

RN Hoffman, SM Leidner - Weather and Forecasting, 2005‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract The NASA Quick Scatterometer (QuikSCAT) satellite carries the SeaWinds
instrument, the first satellite-borne scanning radar scatterometer. QuikSCAT, which was …