Agreement for OSI SAF Visiting Scientist Activity OSI_VSA20_01 on the initial development of pencil-beam scatterometer coastal processing
Period:
from 2020 to 2021
Funding company:
Acrònim:
COASTAL_WINDS
Resum:
Recent developments on ASCAT coastal wind processing show that by thoroughly characterizing the size and orientation of the spatial response function (SRF) for each beam, a better coastal sampling and wind quality product can be derived. The wind processing also benefits from earlier work on the so-called land contribution ratio (LCR), which aims at identifying and removing from the wind retrieval process those backscatter measurements contaminated by land signal. In this work, we aim at fully characterizing the QuikSCAT SRFs before revisiting the LCR method in order to set the grounds for the development of an OSI SAF coastal wind product for rotating pencil-beam scatterometers.