NEAR-REAL-TIME SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHTS IN HURRICANES FROM A NEW AIRBORNE KA-BAND INTERFEROMETRIC ALTIMETER

Joseph Sapp; Zorana Jelenak; Paul Chang; James R. Carswell; Brian Pollard; Alex Theg

doi:10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9554385

NEAR-REAL-TIME SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHTS IN HURRICANES FROM A NEW AIRBORNE KA-BAND INTERFEROMETRIC ALTIMETER

Joseph Sapp, Zorana Jelenak, Paul Chang, James R. Carswell, Brian Pollard, Alex Theg

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Abstract

During the 2020 hurricane season, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)/National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS)/Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR) Ocean Surface Winds Team (OSWT) in collaboration with Remote Sensing Solutions (RSS) operated the RSS Ka-band Interferometric Altimeter (KaIA) from the NOAA WP-3D aircraft, making the first comprehensive set of airborne Ka-band radar altimeter measurements of a tropical cyclone. KaIA is a nadir-looking Ka-band interferometric radar altimeter with a real-time tracker/retracker and is capable of centimetric radar altimetry. This paper shows significant wave height (SWH) retrievals from the 2020 hurricane season and compares them to wave models, and satellite and buoy observations.

Original language	English
Pages	7426-7429
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9554385
State	Published - 2021
Event	2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2021 - Brussels, Belgium Duration: Jul 12 2021 → Jul 16 2021

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Conference	2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2021
Country/Territory	Belgium
City	Brussels
Period	07/12/21 → 07/16/21

Keywords

Altimetry
Cyclones
Ka-band
Remote sensing
Sea measurements

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