Evolutions and Improvements in CFOSAT SWIM Products

C. Tourain (1) , Danièle Hauser (2) , Dunya Alraddawi (2) , L. Hermozo (1) , R. Rodriguez Suquet (1) , Patricia Schippers (3) , L. Aouf (4) , A. Dalphinet (4) , Christophe Dufour (3) , J-M. Lachiver (1) , C. Tison (1)

1 CNES - Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse]
2 SPACE - LATMOS
3 LATMOS - Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales
4 DIRSE - Météo-France Direction Interrégionale Sud-Est

The Chinese-French oceanography satellite, CFOSAT, was launched on October 2018. Two Ku-band scatterometers are on-board: SCAT for the wind observation and SWIM for the wave observation. After a first phase mainly dedicated to validation and identification of improvement possibilities, the ground processing and products generated were upgraded. This paper presents the main evolutions implemented and their positive impacts on the SWIM data quality.

Keywords: radar; ocean waves; scatterometer; CFOSAT; SWIM

Domains: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics [physics.ao-ph]; Oceanography

C. Tourain, Danièle Hauser, Dunya Alraddawi, L. Hermozo, R. Rodriguez Suquet, et al.. Evolutions and Improvements in CFOSAT SWIM Products. IGARSS 2021 - 2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Jul 2021, Brussels, Belgium. pp.7386-7389, ⟨10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9553274⟩. ⟨insu-03379024⟩