Title

An Oceanic Rain Flag For Aquarius

Keywords

Aquarius; Microwave Radiometer; rain rate

Abstract

This paper concerns the Microwave Radiometer (MWR) instrument on the Aquarius/SAC-D satellite, and it discusses the development of a signal processing algorithm to infer rain rate over oceans using the measured MWR microwave brightness temperatures. On-orbit rain measurements are presented and compared with corresponding independent 'surface truth' rain rates from the US Naval Research Laboratory's WindSat satellite radiometer. Further, we discuss how the MWR rain measurements can provide a 'rain flag' that can be used to improve the sea surface salinity retrieval process, which is the main objective of Aquarius/SAC-D mission. © 2012 IEEE.

Publication Date

12-1-2012

Publication Title

OCEANS 2012 MTS/IEEE: Harnessing the Power of the Ocean

Number of Pages

-

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANS.2012.6404812

Socpus ID

84873604122 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84873604122

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