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High-resolution sea surface wind speeds of Super Typhoon Lekima (2019) retrieved by Gaofen-3 SAR |
He FANG1,2, William PERRIE4, Gaofeng FAN1, Zhengquan LI1, Juzhen CAI1, Yue HE1, Jingsong YANG2, Tao XIE5, Xuesong ZHU3() |
1. Zhejiang Climate Centre, Hangzhou 310017, China 2. State Key Laboratory of Satellite Ocean Environment Dynamics, Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Hangzhou 310012, China 3. Shanghai Typhoon Institute, and Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Tropical Cyclone of China Meteorological Administration, Shanghai 200030, China 4. Fisheries & Oceans Canada, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth B2Y4A2, Canada 5. School of Remote Sensing and Geomatics Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China |
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Abstract Gaofen-3 (GF-3) is the first Chinese spaceborne multi-polarization synthetic aperture radar (SAR) instrument at C-band (5.43 GHz). In this paper, we use data collected from GF-3 to observe Super Typhoon Lekima (2019) in the East China Sea. Using a VH-polarized wide ScanSAR (WSC) image, ocean surface wind speeds at 100m horizontal resolution are obtained at 21:56:59 UTC on 8 August 2019, with the maximum wind speed, 38.9 m·s−1. Validating the SAR-retrieved winds with buoy-measured wind speeds, we find that the root mean square error (RMSE) is 1.86 m·s−1, and correlation coefficient, 0.92. This suggests that wind speeds retrieved from GF-3 SAR are reliable. Both the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) fine grid operational forecast products with spatial resolution, and China Global/Regional Assimilation and Prediction Enhance System (GRAPES) have good performances on surface wind prediction under weak wind speed condition (<24 m·s−1), but underestimate the maximum wind speed when the storm is intensified as a severe tropical storm (>24 m·s−1). With respect to SAR-retrieved wind speeds, the RMSEs are 5.24 m·s−1 for ECMWF and 5.17 m·s−1 for GRAPES, with biases of 4.16 m·s−1 for ECMWF and 3.84 m·s−1 for GRAPES during Super Typhoon Lekima (2019).
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Keywords
synthetic aperture radar
wind speed
numerical weather predication (NWP)
typhoon
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Corresponding Author(s):
Xuesong ZHU
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Just Accepted Date: 18 March 2021
Online First Date: 26 March 2021
Issue Date: 04 March 2022
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