Characterization of errors in vector wind retrievals from satellite-based polarimetric microwave radiometer measurements
- Resource Type
- Periodical
- Authors
- Laws, K.E.; Lyzenga, D.R.; Wiberg, D.M.; Vesecky, J.F.
- Source
- IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters IEEE Geosci. Remote Sensing Lett. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, IEEE. 3(1):45-48 Jan, 2006
- Subject
- Geoscience
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Signal Processing and Analysis
Microwave radiometry
Microwave measurements
Sea measurements
Sea surface
Ocean temperature
Satellite broadcasting
Instruments
Velocity measurement
Aircraft
Wind forecasting
Error analysis
microwave radiometry
satellites
sea surface
wind
- Language
- ISSN
- 1545-598X
1558-0571
We present a method for evaluating characteristics of wind vector retrieval errors from polarimetric radiometer measurements. We focus on wind direction errors due to ambiguous solutions.