Ocean surface response to hurricanes observed by SAR

Author

Li, Xiaofeng ; Zhang, Jun A. ; Yang, Xiaofeng ; Pichel, William G. ; DeMaria, Mark ; Long, David ; Li, Ziwei

Author_Institution

IMSG at NESDIS, NOAA, Camp Springs, MD, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

22-27 July 2012

Firstpage

5180

Lastpage

5183

Abstract

In this study, we analyze 83 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images including 73 from RADARSAT-1 and 10 from ENVISAT that contain tropical cyclone eye information. We also obtain ancillary tropical cyclone intensity information from NOAA National Hurricane Center and Japan Meteorological Agency. Based on this information, we generate tropical cyclone morphology statistics. We found that majority of the hurricanes are in wavenumber 1 and 2 category. Marine atmospheric boundary layer rolls can also be extracted from SAR image.

Keywords

atmospheric boundary layer; geophysical image processing; oceanographic techniques; radar imaging; remote sensing by radar; storms; synthetic aperture radar; ENVISAT; Japan Meteorological Agency; NOAA National Hurricane Center; RADARSAT-1; SAR image; ancillary tropical cyclone intensity information; marine atmospheric boundary layer; ocean surface response; synthetic aperture radar images; tropical cyclone morphology statistics; Hurricanes; Rain; Sea surface; Synthetic aperture radar; Tropical cyclones; US Government agencies; USA Councils; SAR; hurricane; morphology; rolls;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Munich

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1160-1

Electronic_ISBN

2153-6996

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6352443

Filename

6352443