A generalized simulation capability for rotating- beam scatterometers

Li, Zhen; Stoffelen, Ad; Verhoef, Anton

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-3573-2019

Articles | Volume 12, issue 7

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-3573-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-3573-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 7

Research article

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04 Jul 2019

Research article |

| 04 Jul 2019

A generalized simulation capability for rotating- beam scatterometers

Zhen Li, Ad Stoffelen, and Anton Verhoef

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EC1: 'Review from referee #1', Andreas Richter, 12 Feb 2019
- AC2: 'reply to the referee 1#', Zhen Li, 16 Mar 2019
RC1: 'Review of Li et. al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 14 Feb 2019
- AC1: 'reply to the referee 2#', Zhen Li, 16 Mar 2019

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AR by Zhen Li on behalf of the Authors (04 May 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (23 May 2019) by Andreas Richter

AR by Zhen Li on behalf of the Authors (12 Jun 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (13 Jun 2019) by Andreas Richter

AR by Zhen Li on behalf of the Authors (14 Jun 2019) Manuscript

Short summary

This paper presents a generic simulation rotating-beam scatterometer scheme, which includes pencil-beam and fan-beam instruments. SCAT (CFOSAT), WindRAD, and SeaWinds are chosen to represent the current or near-future rotating-beam scatterometers. Their capacity for wind retrieval and figures of merit are analyzed and compared with each other. Increasing the number of views is able to improve the wind retrieval, but the improvement also can reach saturation with even more views.