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Passive microwave radiometry is a special application of microwave communications technology for the purpose of collecting Earth's electromagnetic radiation. With the use of radiometers onboard earth orbiting satellites, scientists are able to monitor the Earth's environment and climate system on both short- and long-term temporal scales with near global coverage.
The Stepped Frequency Microwave Radiometer (SFMR) is an instrument flown on research and reconnaissance aircraft through tropical and extratropical cyclones providing rain rate and surface wind speed estimates. Errors have been observed with the retrievals from SFMR, especially in extratropical cyclones over cold water, when compared with other sensors. In this paper, some of the SFMR wind speed errors...
Microwave scatterometers are the standard for satellite ocean vector winds (OVW) measurements, and they provide the major source of global ocean surface winds observations for scientific and operational applications. A major challenge for Ku-band scatterometry missions is to provide reliable retrievals in the presence of precipitation, particularly in extreme ocean wind events that are usually associated...
Microwave scatterometer measurements are the standard for satellite ocean vector winds (OVW) measurements. Unfortunately, in extreme weather events, where high wind speeds are frequently associated with strong rain bands, precipitation can significantly degrade the OVW retrieval accuracy. This study addresses the feasibility of exploiting passive measurements to improve high wind speed retrievals...
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