Remotely sensed winds and wind stresses for marine forecasting and ocean modeling

MA Bourassa, T Meissner, I Cerovecki… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Strengths and weakness of remotely sensed winds are discussed, along with the current
capabilities for remotely sensing winds and stress. Future missions are briefly mentioned …

Advancing global storm surge modelling using the new ERA5 climate reanalysis

JCM Dullaart, S Muis, N Bloemendaal, JCJH Aerts - Climate Dynamics, 2020 - Springer
This study examines the implications of recent advances in global climate modelling for
simulating storm surges. Following the ERA-Interim (0.75°× 0.75°) global climate reanalysis …

Synthetic aperture radar for geosciences

L Meng, C Yan, S Lv, H Sun, S Xue, Q Li… - Reviews of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) has emerged as a pivotal technology in
geosciences, offering unparalleled insights into Earth's surface. Indeed, its ability to provide …

Cross‐polarization geophysical model function for C‐band radar backscattering from the ocean surface and wind speed retrieval

PA Hwang, A Stoffelen, GJ van Zadelhoff… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The wind speed sensitivity of cross‐polarization (cross‐pol) radar backscattering cross
section (VH) from the ocean surface increases toward high winds. The signal saturation …

Surface roughness and breaking wave properties retrieved from polarimetric microwave radar backscattering

PA Hwang, F Fois - Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Ocean surface roughness and wave breaking are the two main contributors of radar
backscattering from the ocean surface. The relative weightings of the two contributions vary …

[HTML][HTML] A new generation of tropical cyclone size measurements from space

N Reul, B Chapron, E Zabolotskikh… - Bulletin of the …, 2017 - journals.ametsoc.org
A New Generation of Tropical Cyclone Size Measurements from Space in: Bulletin of the
American Meteorological Society Volume 98 Issue 11 (2017) Jump to Content Jump to Main …

Fetch-and duration-limited nature of surface wave growth inside tropical cyclones: With applications to air–sea exchange and remote sensing

PA Hwang - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
The 2D wavenumber spectra collected by an airborne scanning radar altimeter in hurricane
hunter missions are used to investigate the fetch-and duration-limited nature of wave growth …

Capabilities of Chinese Gaofen-3 synthetic aperture radar in selected topics for coastal and ocean observations

XM Li, T Zhang, B Huang, T Jia - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
Gaofen-3 (GF-3), the first Chinese spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) in C-band for
civil applications, was launched on August 2016. Some studies have examined the use of …

Bridging the gap between cyclone wind and wave by C‐band SAR measurements

W Shao, X Li, P Hwang, B Zhang… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Active microwave remote sensing of hurricane‐strength wind is a challenging task due to the
saturation of col‐polarization backscattering signal under such condition. Here we take …

Ka-band dual copolarized empirical model for the sea surface radar cross section

YY Yurovsky, VN Kudryavtsev… - … on Geoscience and …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents dual copolarized (PP)(VV and HH) Ka-band sea surface backscattering
measurements taken from the Black Sea research platform at incidence angles ranging from …