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Altimeter Near Real Time Wind and Wave Products: Random Error Estimation

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Pages 393-406 | Received 30 Nov 2010, Accepted 12 Apr 2011, Published online: 22 Aug 2011
 

Abstract

Triple collocation technique is used to estimate the errors in near-real time altimeter wind and wave products of Jason-2, Envisat and Jason-1. Significant wave height (SWH) error is estimated by collocating altimeter products with buoys and model hindcasts over the period August 1, 2009 to July 31, 2010. It is estimated that Jason-2 absolute SWH error is about 0.13 m, or about 5.4% relative to the mean SWH value. The SWH errors of Envisat, Jason-1, buoys and the stand-alone model hindcast are about 6.2%, 7.8%, 8.6% and 9.7%, respectively. The wind speed error is estimated by collocating altimeter products with buoys and ECMWF model 1-day forecast over the same period. Jason-2 wind speed absolute error is about 1.0 m.s−1 (∼11.9% of the mean). For the collocation data sets used, it is found that wind speed errors of Envisat, Jason-1, the buoys and the model 1-day forecast are, respectively, 0.9 m.s−1, 1.0 m.s−1, 1.2 m.s−1 and 1.0 m.s−1.

Acknowledgements

This work depends mainly on altimeter and in situ data made available by various data providers around the world including but not limited to Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), European Space Agency (ESA), European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

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