Evaluation of a compound probability model with tower-mountedscatterometer data |
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Authors: | Barrowes BE Long DG |
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Affiliation: | Center for Electromagn. Tbeory & Applications, MIT, Cambridge, MA; |
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Abstract: | Six months of data from the YSCAT94 experiment conducted at the CCIW WAVES research platform on Lake Ontario, Canada, are analyzed to evaluate a compound probability model. YSCAT was an ultrawideband small footprint (≈1 m) microwave scatterometer that operated at frequencies of 2-18 GHz, incidence angles from 0° to 60°, both h-pol and v-pol, and which tracked the wind using simultaneous weather measurements. The probability distribution function of the measured instantaneous backscattered amplitude (p(a)) is compared to theoretical distributions developed from-the composite model and a simple wave spectrum. Model parameters of the resulting Rayleigh/generalized lognormal distribution probability density function (pdf) (C, a1 , and a2) are derived directly from the data and are found to demonstrate relationships with wind speed, incidence angle, and radar frequency |
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