OSWT Research and Publications
The primary objective of the Ocean Surface Winds Team (OSWT) is to
provide science support for remotely-sensed ocean surface wind products
through product development, product validation, product improvement and
user education and outreach. Its objective is to improve utilization of
these data within NOAA and to provide guidance and support in planning for
current and future missions. These products primarily address
NOAA's mission goals of "Serve Society's Needs for Weather and Water
Information" and "Support the Nation's Commerce with Information for Safe,
Efficient, and Environmentally Sound Transportation". The OSWT works
closely with operational forecasters in the NWS and other parts of NOAA,
and thus, much of its research, development and validation is in support
of the near real-time product stream. In support of these activities OSWT
operates several near real-time satellite product processing systems
and supports the Ocean Winds flight experiment program with the NOAA
P-3 aircraft.
Projects
Operational Satellite Ocean Surface Vector Winds Project: A Next Generation Concept
Flight Experiments
Ocean Surface Winds Team Flight Experiment Program
Meetings
International Scatterometer High Winds Workshop, December 9-10, 2015
Publications
2023
Extending the usability of radiometer ocean surface wind measurements to all weather conditions for NOAA operations application to AMSR2
(DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2023.3189310)
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2022
On dropsonde surface-adjusted winds and their use for the Stepped Frequency Microwave Radiometer wind speed calibration
(DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2022.3189310)
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2021
Hurricane Ocean Wind Speeds
(DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9554667)
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Land Contamination Correction for AMSR2
(DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9554437)
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Near-Real-Time Significant Wave Heights in
Hurricanes from a New Airborne KA-Band Interferometric Altimeter
(DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9554385)
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An Operational All-Weather Wind Speed from AMSR2
(DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9553710)
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UMass Simultaneous Frequency Microwave Radiometer (USFMR) Instrument Description, Current and Future Work
(DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9553101)
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On
High and Extreme Wind Calibration Using ASCAT
(DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2021.3079898)
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The NOAA Track-Wise Wind Retrieval Algorithm and Product Assessment for CyGNSS
(DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2021.3087426)
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2020
Comparison of the Sentinel-1B
Synthetic Aperture Radar with Airborne Microwave Sensors in an Extra-Tropical Cyclone
(DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2020.2966332)
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C-Band
Cross-Polarization Airborne Ocean Surface NRCS Observations in Hurricanes: 2015–2019
(DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9324284)
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Scatsat-1 High Winds Geophysical
Model Function and its Winds Application in Operational Marine Forecasting and Warning
(DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9324328)
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AMSR-2 Observations of Hurricane Dorian
(DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323524)
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An Overview of NOAA CYGNSS Wind Product Version 1.0
(DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323834)
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2019
Stepped
Frequency Microwave Radiometer Wind-Speed Retrieval Improvements
(DOI: 10.3390/rs11030214)
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An
Overview of NOAA’s GCOM-W1/AMSR-2 Product Processing and Utilization
(DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2019.8899051)
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2018
C-Band Cross-Polarization Ocean
Surface Observations In Hurricane Matthew
(DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2018.8519433)
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Validation of AMSR2 Oceanic
Environmental Data Records Using Tropical Cyclone Composite Fields
(DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2018.8517426)
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2017
Stepped Frequency Microwave Radiometer Retrieval Error Characterization
(DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2017.8126947)
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Remote
Sensing of Sea Surface Temperature Using AMSR-2 Measurements
(DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2017.2737470)
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2016
The GNSS Reflectometry
Response to the Ocean Surface Winds and Waves
(DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2016.2602703)
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Performance
Assessment of Simulated CYGNSS Measurements in the Tropical Cyclone Environment
(DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2016.2559782)
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Airborne Co-polarization and Cross-Polarization Observations
of the Ocean Surface NRCS at C-band
(DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2016.2578048)
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Cross-Polarized C-band Sea-Surface NRCS Observations in Extreme Winds
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Cross-polarized C-band data from IWRAP in Winter 2015
2015
Sea-Surface NRCS Observations in high winds at low incidence angles
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2014
Inter-calibration Results of AMSR2 over Ocean
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2013
CMOD5.H—A High Wind Geophysical Model Function for C-Band
Vertically Polarized Satellite Scatterometer Measurements
(How to read the CMOD5.H look-up table)
2012
Airborne Dual-Polarization Observations of the Sea Surface NRCS at C-Band in High Winds
(DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2012.2220118)
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2009
Operational Use and Impact of Satellite Remotely
Sensed Ocean Surface Vector Winds in the Marine Warning and Forecasting Environment
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