Publications

Lambrigtsen, B; Van Dang, H; Turk, FJ; Hristova-Veleva, SM; Su, H; Wen, YX (2018). All-Weather Tropospheric 3-D Wind From Microwave Sounders. IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN APPLIED EARTH OBSERVATIONS AND REMOTE SENSING, 11(6), 1949-1956.

Abstract
In this paper, we describe a new approach to measure tropospheric wind vectors from space that has significant advantages over current methods and borders on a breakthrough capability. We report on the results of simulations of observations from a geostationary microwave sounder and, briefly, from a small cluster of low-earth-orbiting CubeSats. The geostationary simulations show a precision of better than 2 m/s for wind speed and 15 degrees for direction. Wind speed bias is about -1 m/s. The transfer function is largely linear. Our studies show that this methodology will meet wind measurement requirements specified by the World Meteorological Organization.

DOI:
10.1109/JSTARS.2018.2814540

ISSN:
1939-1404