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Verification ofRA-2 Wind and Wave
andMWR Water Content
Products
Peter Janssen and Saleh Abdalla
ECMWF, Reading, UK
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Time series of Means and Standard Deviations
for the period18 July – 22 Nov. 2002
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Ku-Band Altimeter
Note the drop in Backscatter on the 23rd of October and the consequences for mean wind
speed.
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S-Band Altimeter
In the early period S-band was erratic but since the 2nd of November appears to be
stable.
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MWR Total Column Water Vapour
There is a large variability on a daily time scale
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Statistics for October 2002
. Ku-band winds against modeland against buoys . Ku-band waves . S-band waves . TCWV from MWRagainst model
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Atmospheric model shows saturation in TCWV but MWR
observations not.Thermodynamics of the moist adiabat tells you, however, that for given SST there is an upper
limit to the amount of water vapour the atmosphere can
contain.
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RA2 – ERS-2 – Buoy - ModelCollocations
(18 July - 17 Nov. 2002)
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Results of Triple Collocation of HS > 1 m and a collocation error
of 1.5% are:
# of collocations: 723Envisat error: 6.3%ERS-2 error: 7.1%Buoy error: 9.3%
Analysis error: 4.6%
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The collocation method also provides corrections with respect to an arbitrarily chosen standard,
say the buoys.The results are:
Envisat is too high by 3.0%ERS-2 is too low by 4.4%
Analysis is too low by 5.5%
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