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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
(DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7729579)
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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
(DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2015.7325987)
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2014

Inter-calibration Results of AMSR2 over Ocean
(DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2330980)
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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
(DOI: 10.5670/oceanog.2009.49)
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