1Department of Marine Technology, Faculty of Information Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, Shandong, China
2Laboratory for Regional Oceanography and Numerical Modeling, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao 266237, Shandong, China
3Key Laboratory of Space Laser Communication and Detection Technology, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
Fig. 1. Comparison of CALIOP wind speed inversion values and AMSR-2 wind speed values at different times. (a)(b) October 2017; (c)(d) January 2018; (e)(f) April 2018; (g)(h) July 2018
Fig. 2. Errors between CALIOP wind speed inversion values and AMSR-2 wind speed values in different wind speed intervals. (a) Wind speed less than 3 m·s-1; (b) wind speed greater than 13 m·s-1
Table 1. Differences of nighttime sea surface wind speed retrieved by Gaussian model, GC approximation model in cloud-free condition and GC approximation model with transparent cloud layers
Time
Bias /(m·s-1)
Standard deviation /(m·s-1)
Correlation coefficient
Gauss
GC1
GC2
Gauss
GC1
GC2
Gauss
GC1
GC2
-0.19
-0.16
0.33
1.23
1.45
1.41
0.91
0.89
0.90
-0.60
-0.46
0.28
1.28
1.53
1.45
0.89
0.88
0.89
-0.60
-0.45
0.40
1.57
1.83
1.86
0.86
0.85
0.86
-0.41
-0.49
0.35
1.45
1.85
1.69
0.88
0.82
0.87
Table 2. Differences of daytime sea surface wind speed retrieved by Gaussian model, GC approximation model in cloud-free condition and GC approximation model with transparent cloud layers