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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS
卷 124, 期 6, 页码 3905-3922出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2019JC015056
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SAR; copolarization and cross-polarization; high resolution; category 5 Hurricane; Hurricane Irma
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- public funds (Ministere de l'Education Nationale, de l'Enseignement Superieur et de la Recherche, FEDER, Region Bretagne, Conseil General du Finistere, Brest Metropole)
- Institut Mines Telecom
- CNES TOSCA program (COWS project)
- European Space Agency through S1-4SCI Ocean Study project [4000115170/15/I-SBo]
- Sentinel-1 A Mission Performance Center [4000107360/12/I-LG]
- EUMETSAT CHEF project
- ANR (FEM) CARAVELE project
- National Science Foundation of China [41622604]
- Excellent Youth Science Foundation of Jiangsu province [BK2016090]
- NOAA NESDIS base funding
C-band high-resolution radar (synthetic aperture radar [SAR]) is the only spaceborne instrument able to probe at very high resolution and over all ocean basins the sea surface under extreme weather conditions. When coanalyzed with Stepped Frequency Microwave Radiometer wind estimates, the radar backscatter signals acquired in major hurricanes from Sentinel-1 and Radarsat-2 SAR reveal high sensitivity in the cross-polarized channel for wind speeds up to 75m/s. The combination of the two copolarized and cross-polarized channels can then be used to derive high-resolution surface wind estimates. The retrieval methods and impacts of intense rainfall are discussed in the context of a Hurricane Irma (2017) case study. On 7 September 2017, Sentinel-1 measurements intercepted Hurricane Irma when it was at category 5 intensity. When compared to Stepped Frequency Microwave Radiometer, SAR-derived wind speeds yield bias and root-mean-square of about 1.5 and 5.0m/s, respectively. The retrieved wind structure parameters for the outer core are found to be in agreement with the Best-Track and combined satellite- and aircraft-based analyses. SAR measurements uniquely describe the inner core and provide independent measurements of the maximum wind speed and the radius of maximum wind. Near the radius of maximum wind a 65-m/s increase in wind speed in less than 10km is detected, corresponding to an instantaneous absolute vorticity of order 210 times the Coriolis parameter. Using a parametric Holland model and the environmental surface pressure (1,011hPa), SAR-derived wind speeds correspond to a central surface pressure of 918hPa (921hPa from the Best-Track) in Irma's eye.
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