《Mapping sea surface velocities in the Changjiang coastal zone with advanced synthetic aperture radar》.pdfVIP

Acta Oceanol. Sin., 2014, Vol. 33, No. 11, P. 141–149 DOI: 10.1007/s13131-014-0563-x E-mail: hyxbe@263.net Mapping sea surface velocities in the Changjiang coastal zone with advanced synthetic aperture radar 1 1 1 2,3 1 WANG Lihua , ZHOU Yunxuan *, GE Jianzhong , JOHANNESSEN Johnny A. , SHEN Fang 1 State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China 2 Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Bergen 5006, Norway 3 Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen, Bergen 5006, Norway Received 24 February 2014; accepted 20 March 2014 ©The Chinese Society of Oceanography and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014 Abstract Range Doppler velocities derived from the Envisat advanced synthetic aperture radar (ASAR) wide swath images are analyzed and assessed against the numerically simulated surface current fields derived from the finite volume coastal ocean model (FVCOM) for the Changjiang Estuary. Comparisons with the FVCOM simulations show that the European Space Agency (ESA) Envisat ASAR based Doppler shift anomaly retriev- als have the capability to capture quantitative information of the surface currents in the Changjiang Estu- ary. The uncertainty analysis of the ASAR range Doppler velocity estimates are discussed with regard to the azimuthal and range bias corrections, radar incidence angles, inaccuracy in the wind field corrections and the presence of rain cells.The corrected range Doppler velocities for the Changjiang Estuary area are highly valuable as they exhibit quantitative expressions related to the multiscale upper layer dynamics and surface current variability around the East China Sea, including the Changjiang Estuary. Key words: advanced synthetic aperture radar, Changjiang