Title

Hurricane Imaging Radiometer Wide Swath Simulation For Wind Speed And Rain Rate

Keywords

Flight simulation; HIRAD; Hurricane surveillance; Microwave Radiometry

Abstract

There is a strong national interest in the observation of ocean surface winds with high spatial and temporal resolution for understanding tropical cyclones and their effects on weather and climate and in forecasting storms making landfall. Current satellite and aircraft based remote sensing capability is limited in wind speed dynamic range and in the ability to retrieve wind information in the presence of rain, or in temporal and spatial coverage, respectively. The Hurricane Imaging Radiometer (HIRAD) is capable to capture all the hurricane features and dynamics from a high altitude aircraft preserving high resolution measurements. A detailed description of the methods used in simulating the HIRAD instrument surface sampling of wind speed, in intense rain, from various aircraft platforms with realistic operational flight patterns through a time evolving hurricane will be provided in this paper. A noise model used to simulate the effects of rain for various observation path lengths over the swath will also be described. Results will demonstrate the extent of spatial and temporal coverage available from currently available aircraft platforms. © 2008 IEEE.

Publication Date

1-1-2008

Publication Title

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volume

1

Issue

1

Number of Pages

288-291

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4778850

Socpus ID

67649830163 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/67649830163

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