@inproceedings{8d5a6129f5194969b627337596d29b4a,
title = "A Comparison between COWVR and WindSat Measurements for NOAA's Applications",
abstract = "The Compact Ocean Wind Vector Radiometer (COWVR) and WindSat are two fully polarimetric microwave radiometers that are designed to measure ocean surface vector winds (OSVW). In this paper, a comparison between the COWVR and WindSat common fully polarimetric channels will be presented. The main focus is to analyze the sensitivity of COWVR measured Stokes parameters (3rd and 4th Stokes at 18.7 and 34 GHz) to multiple surface and atmospheric parameters and compare them to their WindSat counterparts (3rd and 4th Stokes 18.7 and 37 GHz). Approximately 2000 randomly selected orbits of COWVR and WindSat were used in the analyses along with modeled geophysical parameters from the Global Data Assimilation System (GDAS) 0.25° resolution product. Preliminary results show that COWVR Stokes measurements exhibits strong wind vector signature comparable to that of WindSat.",
keywords = "COWVR, fully polarimetric radiometers, Stokes parameters, WindSat",
author = "Suleiman Alsweiss and Zorana Jelenak and Chang, \{Paul S.\}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023 IEEE.; 2023 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2023 ; Conference date: 16-07-2023 Through 21-07-2023",
year = "2023",
doi = "10.1109/IGARSS52108.2023.10283315",
language = "English",
series = "International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "3977--3980",
booktitle = "IGARSS 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Proceedings",
address = "United States",
}