Case studies of airborne radiometer signals over the ocean

Author

West, Richard D. ; Yueh, Simon H.

Author_Institution

Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1998

fDate

6-10 Jul 1998

Firstpage

748

Abstract

This paper presents some case studies of multi-frequency multi-polarization brightness temperatures obtained in a variety of surface and atmospheric conditions. All of the channels showed the characteristic sinusoidal modulation with azimuth caused by wind stress on the ocean surface. The lowest frequency channel (10 GHz) seemed to show more modulation than other frequencies, especially in the U channel. The U channel was the least sensitive to the atmospheric conditions

Keywords

atmospheric boundary layer; atmospheric radiation; atmospheric techniques; microwave measurement; ocean waves; oceanographic techniques; radiometry; remote sensing; wind; 10 GHz; U channel; airborne radiometer signals; atmospheric conditions; azimuth; multi-frequency multi-polarization brightness temperatures; ocean; ocean surface; sinusoidal modulation; surface conditions; wind stress; Computer aided software engineering; Frequency; Microwave radiometry; Ocean temperature; Polarization; Rough surfaces; Sea measurements; Sea surface; Surface roughness; Wind;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings, 1998. IGARSS '98. 1998 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4403-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1998.699571

Filename

699571