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A probabilistic approach to scatterometer model function verification

delete2001-09-15
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Kartik Shankaranarayanan
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Mark A. Donelan
DOI:10.1029/1999JC000189delete
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The scatterometer backscatter model function has a threshold wind speed, below which there is no backscatter return from the ocean surface. Owing to the variability associated with the wind at the scatterometer footprint resolution, the sharp cutoff in the model backscatter response is not observed in Ku band spaceborne scatterometer data. A merged data set is generated by temporal and spatial collocation of the National Center for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) 10-m neutral winds with individual National Aeronautics and Space Administration Scatterometer (NSCAT) backscatter measurements from level 1.7. A model is set up to compare the observed and expected probability distributions of (sigma (0) in an NCEP grid resolution cell (1.875 degrees X 1.904 degrees), after incorporating the variabilities associated with the wind and the backscatter measurements. The differences in the model responses arrived at using the NSCAT I and the new threshold model function (TMF) are presented. The TMF model does well in fitting the observed sigma (0) distributions for all incidence angles, antenna azimuths, and both polarizations over the wind speed range considered (1-10 m s(-1)). A comparison of the modes of the model-predicted and observed distributions revealed the model function cutoff behavior at the threshold wind speed. The model also predicts increasing percentage occurrences of negative sigma (0) with decreasing wind speeds and increasing incidence angles, in line with the observations. The TMF model is corrected for the superthreshold winds to yield a better fit to the observed probability distributions.
Keyword:
WIND VARIABILITY
OCEAN
BUOY
DESIGN

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Journal of Geophysical Research and Oceans
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3.4
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