NOAA CYGNSS Wind Product: Recent Progress

Faozi Said, Zorana Jelenak, Paul S. Chang

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Abstract

The current version of the NOAA CyGNSS wind product has three issues which hinder its overall performance: a 13% loss in global coverage due to the exclusion of roll angle data (greater than | 5o |), a tendency to underestimate in the higher wind regime, and the presence of outliers. The proposed improvements are first the use of a point-wise σo bias threshold to address the roll angle data, the use of a cumulative distribution function matching technique to help CyGNSS high wind performance, and an update to the quality flag to significantly decrease the presence of outliers. The implementation of these improvements enables global coverage to increase by 12.56%, a decrease in overall bias in the higher wind regime between NOAA CyGNSS winds and HWRF from -0.44 to -0.14 m/s, and a drastic decrease in outliers.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIEEE Specialist Meeting on Reflectometry using GNSS and other Signals of Opportunity 2021, GNSS+R 2021 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages73-76
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781665417822
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Event2021 IEEE Specialist Meeting on Reflectometry using GNSS and other Signals of Opportunity, GNSS+R 2021 - Virtual, Online, China
Duration: Sep 14 2021Sep 17 2021

Publication series

NameIEEE Specialist Meeting on Reflectometry using GNSS and other Signals of Opportunity 2021, GNSS+R 2021 - Proceedings

Conference

Conference2021 IEEE Specialist Meeting on Reflectometry using GNSS and other Signals of Opportunity, GNSS+R 2021
Country/TerritoryChina
CityVirtual, Online
Period09/14/2109/17/21

Keywords

  • Geophysical measurements
  • Global Positioning System
  • Microwave reflectometry
  • Radar measurements
  • Remote sensing
  • Scattering
  • Sea surface
  • Wind

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