Articles | Volume 6, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-1053-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-1053-2013
Research article
 | 
22 Apr 2013
Research article |  | 22 Apr 2013

On the characteristics of ASCAT wind direction ambiguities

W. Lin, M. Portabella, A. Stoffelen, and A. Verhoef

Related authors

Assessment of the seasonal cycle in Atlantic density flux
Aqeel Piracha, Estrella Olmedo, Marcos Portabella, and Antonio Turiel
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-2973,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-2973, 2025
This preprint is open for discussion and under review for Ocean Science (OS).
Short summary
Sea Ice Screening Ability in Ku Band and C Band Wind Scatterometry
Xingou Xu and Ad Stoffelen
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-3840,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-3840, 2025
Preprint archived
Short summary
Aeolus lidar surface return (LSR) at 355 nm as a new Aeolus Level-2A product
Lev D. Labzovskii, Gerd-Jan van Zadelhoff, David P. Donovan, Jos de Kloe, L. Gijsbert Tilstra, Ad Stoffelen, Damien Josset, and Piet Stammes
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 17, 7183–7208, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-7183-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-7183-2024, 2024
Short summary
The state of the global ocean
Karina von Schuckmann, Lorena Moreira, Mathilde Cancet, Flora Gues, Emmanuelle Autret, Jonathan Baker, Clément Bricaud, Romain Bourdalle-Badie, Lluis Castrillo, Lijing Cheng, Frederic Chevallier, Daniele Ciani, Alvaro de Pascual-Collar, Vincenzo De Toma, Marie Drevillon, Claudia Fanelli, Gilles Garric, Marion Gehlen, Rianne Giesen, Kevin Hodges, Doroteaciro Iovino, Simon Jandt-Scheelke, Eric Jansen, Melanie Juza, Ioanna Karagali, Thomas Lavergne, Simona Masina, Ronan McAdam, Audrey Minière, Helen Morrison, Tabea Rebekka Panteleit, Andrea Pisano, Marie-Isabelle Pujol, Ad Stoffelen, Sulian Thual, Simon Van Gennip, Pierre Veillard, Chunxue Yang, and Hao Zuo
State Planet, 4-osr8, 1, https://doi.org/10.5194/sp-4-osr8-1-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/sp-4-osr8-1-2024, 2024
The state of the ocean in the northeastern Atlantic and adjacent seas
Karina von Schuckmann, Lorena Moreira, Mathilde Cancet, Flora Gues, Emmanuelle Autret, Ali Aydogdu, Lluis Castrillo, Daniele Ciani, Andrea Cipollone, Emanuela Clementi, Gianpiero Cossarini, Alvaro de Pascual-Collar, Vincenzo De Toma, Marion Gehlen, Rianne Giesen, Marie Drevillon, Claudia Fanelli, Kevin Hodges, Simon Jandt-Scheelke, Eric Jansen, Melanie Juza, Ioanna Karagali, Priidik Lagemaa, Vidar Lien, Leonardo Lima, Vladyslav Lyubartsev, Ilja Maljutenko, Simona Masina, Ronan McAdam, Pietro Miraglio, Helen Morrison, Tabea Rebekka Panteleit, Andrea Pisano, Marie-Isabelle Pujol, Urmas Raudsepp, Roshin Raj, Ad Stoffelen, Simon Van Gennip, Pierre Veillard, and Chunxue Yang
State Planet, 4-osr8, 2, https://doi.org/10.5194/sp-4-osr8-2-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/sp-4-osr8-2-2024, 2024

Related subject area

Subject: Others (Wind, Precipitation, Temperature, etc.) | Technique: Remote Sensing | Topic: Data Processing and Information Retrieval
Observing atmospheric rivers using multi-GNSS airborne radio occultation: system description and data evaluation
Bing Cao, Jennifer S. Haase, Michael J. Murphy Jr., and Anna M. Wilson
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 18, 3361–3392, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-3361-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-3361-2025, 2025
Short summary
Evolution of wind field in the atmospheric boundary layer using multiple-source observations during the passage of Super Typhoon Doksuri (2305)
Xiaoye Wang, Jing Xu, Songhua Wu, Qichao Wang, Guangyao Dai, Peizhi Zhu, Zhizhong Su, Sai Chen, Xiaomeng Shi, and Mengqi Fan
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 18, 3305–3320, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-3305-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-3305-2025, 2025
Short summary
Observed impact of the GNSS clock data rate on radio occultation bending angles for Sentinel-6A and COSMIC-2
Sebastiano Padovan, Axel von Engeln, Saverio Paolella, Yago Andres, Chad R. Galley, Riccardo Notarpietro, Veronica Rivas Boscan, Francisco Sancho, Francisco Martin Alemany, Nicolas Morew, and Christian Marquardt
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 18, 3217–3228, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-3217-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-3217-2025, 2025
Short summary
A new method to retrieve relative humidity profiles from a synergy of Raman lidar, microwave radiometer, and satellite
Chengli Ji, Qiankai Jin, Feilong Li, Yuyang Liu, Zhicheng Wang, Jiajia Mao, Xiaoyu Ren, Yan Xiang, Wanlin Jian, Zhenyi Chen, and Peitao Zhao
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 18, 3179–3191, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-3179-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-3179-2025, 2025
Short summary
Combining commercial microwave links and weather radar for classification of dry snow and rainfall
Erlend Øydvin, Renaud Gaban, Jafet Andersson, Remco (C. Z.) van de Beek, Mareile Astrid Wolff, Nils-Otto Kitterød, Christian Chwala, and Vegard Nilsen
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 18, 2279–2293, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-2279-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-2279-2025, 2025
Short summary

Cited articles

Cornford, D., Csató, L., Evans, D. J., and Opper, M.: Bayesian analysis of the scatterometer wind retrieval inverse problems: some new approaches, J. R. Statist. Soc. B., 66, 609–626, 2004.
Figa-Saldana, J., Wilson, J. J. W., Attema, E., Gelsthorpe, R., Drinkwater, M. R., and Stoffelen, A.: The advanced scatterometer (ASCAT) on Metop: A follow-on for European scatterometers, Can. J. Remote Sens., 28, 404–412, 2002.
Hersbach, H., Stoffelen, A., and De Haan, S.: The improved C-band ocean geophysical model function: CMOD-5, J. Geophys. Res., 112, C03006, https://doi.org/10.1029/2006JC003743, 2007.
Pierson, W. J.: Probabilities and statistics for backscatter estimates obtained by a scatterometer, J. Geophys. Res., 94, 9743–9759, 1989.
Portabella, M. and Stoffelen, A.: Characterization of residual information for SeaWinds quality control, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 40, 2747–2759, 2002.
Download
Share