Rain and ice flagging of Envisat altimeter and MWR data
Rain and ice flagging of Envisat altimeter and MWR data
Altimetry range, wave height, and wind speed measurements are often corrupted by two effects over the ocean: rain and sea-ice. Radiometer measurements, which provide the altimetric wet troposphere correction, are similarly corrupted by the presence of rain or sea-ice in the instrument's footprint. To avoid contamination of
sea surface height measurements, it is imperative that data influenced by either of these effects be edited out. The waveform “peakiness” parameter, available on the
GDR data sets is effective at identifying sea-ice returns when stringent thresholds are applied. The mean relationship between backscatter (sigma0) at the two
altimeter frequencies allows one to flag data impacted by both rain and sea-ice. We present here a new method for flagging rain or sea-ice contaminated data, based on
two-dimensional histograms of sigma0.
altimeter, RA-2, Envisat, dual-frequency, rain, ice, land, S-band anomalies
Session 2D5, Abs. No. 205
Lillibridge, J.
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Scharroo, R.
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Quartly, G.
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Lillibridge, J.
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Scharroo, R.
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Quartly, G.
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Lillibridge, J., Scharroo, R. and Quartly, G.
(2004)
Rain and ice flagging of Envisat altimeter and MWR data.
In 2004 Envisat and ERS Symposium, Salzburg, Austria, 6-10 September 2004: programme and abstract book.
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Altimetry range, wave height, and wind speed measurements are often corrupted by two effects over the ocean: rain and sea-ice. Radiometer measurements, which provide the altimetric wet troposphere correction, are similarly corrupted by the presence of rain or sea-ice in the instrument's footprint. To avoid contamination of
sea surface height measurements, it is imperative that data influenced by either of these effects be edited out. The waveform “peakiness” parameter, available on the
GDR data sets is effective at identifying sea-ice returns when stringent thresholds are applied. The mean relationship between backscatter (sigma0) at the two
altimeter frequencies allows one to flag data impacted by both rain and sea-ice. We present here a new method for flagging rain or sea-ice contaminated data, based on
two-dimensional histograms of sigma0.
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Published date: 2004
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Envisat and ERS Symposium, Salzburg, Austria, 2004-09-06 - 2004-09-10
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altimeter, RA-2, Envisat, dual-frequency, rain, ice, land, S-band anomalies
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J. Lillibridge
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R. Scharroo
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G. Quartly
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