VIERS-1 scatterometer model

In this paper a description is given of a physically based theoretical ocean backscatter model (called the VIERS-1 model) for intermediate incidence angles, and a comparison of its performance against the CMOD4 empirical model is made. The VIERS-1 scatterometer algorithm is based on a two-scale composite surface model which includes both...

A summary of the VIERS-1 scatterometer model

The VIERS-1 (Verification and Interpretation ERS-1) project has resulted in a new algorithm for the interpretation of the wind scatterometer, based on a physical model of air/sea/radar interaction in which the radar backscatter is calculated from wind and wave conditions. The model is inverted to obtain the wind from the radar backscatter. For...

Improved relation between radar backscatter from the ocean surface and surface wind vector

The simulated VIERS backscatter, obtained using the ECMWF wind and WAM wave fields, was compared with the backscatter as observed by the ERS1I satellite. The air-sea temperature difference was set to zero since neutral stability is the most common situation that occurs over the oceans. The period of interest was the 6th of November 1991 at l2.OO...

VIERS-1 Final report phase 4

VIERS-1 Final report phase 4A