A New Method for Improving Scatterometer Wind Quality Control

Author

Portabella, M. ; Stoffelen, A. ; Verhoef, A. ; Verspeek, J.

Author_Institution

Unidad de Tecnol. Marina (UTM), Consejo Super. de Investig. Cientificas (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain

Volume

9

Issue

4

fYear

2012

fDate

7/1/2012 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

579

Lastpage

583

Abstract

An important part of the scatterometer wind data processing is the quality control (QC). This letter shows the implementation of a new scatterometer QC procedure, based on a comprehensive analysis of the wind inversion residual, which significantly improves the effectiveness of the wind data QC. The method is applied on the Advanced Scatterometer onboard the EUMETSAT Polar System (EPS) Metop-A satellite but is generic and can therefore be applied to any scatterometer system.

Keywords

atmospheric techniques; data analysis; inverse problems; quality control; wind; EUMETSAT polar system Metop-A satellite; advanced scatterometer onboard; comprehensive analysis; scatterometer quality control procedure; scatterometer system; scatterometer wind data processing; scatterometer wind quality control; wind inversion residual analysis; Extraterrestrial measurements; Maximum likelihood estimation; Radar measurements; Sea measurements; Spaceborne radar; Wind; Geophysical inverse problems; geophysical measurements; quality control; radar data processing; remote sensing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1545-598X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LGRS.2011.2175435

Filename

6133325