Simulation of wind speed retrievals from an orbiting bistatic GPS receiver

Monte Carlo simulations were performed to predict the statistical errors in satellite based wind speed measurements using bistatic GPS signals. A scattering model based upon geometric optics and empirical ocean surface slope variances was used to simulate the mean post-correlation waveform. Synthetic Rayleigh scattered and thermal noise signals were generated. Batches of between 50 and 1000 independent samples were used in these simulations. The surface resolution was set to a radius of approximately 50 km through selection of range and Doppler bins