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"Satellite Altimetry and Earth Sciences-Lee.Lueng.Fu"
《卫星测高与地球科学》是国际地球物理学系列中的第69卷,由李-卢恩·傅(Lee-Lueng Fu)和安妮·卡森纳维(Anne Cazenave)编辑。这本书详细介绍了卫星测高技术及其在地球科学中的应用,涵盖了海洋学、大地测量学和地球物理学等领域。
卫星测高技术起源于20世纪60年代的人造卫星时代,它通过在太空中的雷达测高仪对全球海面形状进行频繁测量。这种技术具有革命性的意义,因为它能够快速获取全球海洋的地形信息,而这是传统船舶测量无法实现的。海洋的环流、温度和盐度时刻在变化,船只需要数周或数月才能横渡大洋进行测量,因此无法实时全面地观测全球海洋。
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该书详尽阐述了卫星测高的原理、数据处理方法和各种应用技术,为科研人员、工程师和学生提供了宝贵的参考资料。书中可能包括了数据校正、误差分析、时间序列分析、数据融合等关键技术的讨论,以及如何将这些数据应用于气候模型、海洋环流模型的构建和改进。
《卫星测高与地球科学》是一部综合性的手册,不仅详细介绍了卫星测高技术,还展示了其在地球科学研究中的广泛和深远影响。通过这本书,读者可以深入了解这一领域的最新进展和技术挑战,以及它如何塑造我们对地球系统动态的理解。
1. SATELLITE ALTIMETRY 3
measurement imprecision can be reduced to less than 1 cm
by averaging the measurements over along-track distances
of ~ 100 km. Other sources of measurement error such as
corrections for atmospheric refraction and sea-state biases in
the range estimates are of much greater concern since they
typically have length scales on the order of 100 km or longer.
Through a concerted effort devoted to algorithm improve-
ment, the root-sum-of-squares of these various measurement
errors has been reduced to about 2.7 cm (see Table 11 in
Section 8.3). Equally important, there has been a parallel im-
provement in precision orbit determination that has reduced
root-mean-square errors of estimated orbit height H from
10 m for GEOS-3 to 2.5 cm for TOPEX/POSEIDON (see
Table 1). The overall root-sum-of-squares measurement ac-
curacy for the TOPEX/POSEIDON dual-frequency altime-
ter estimates of sea-surface height is therefore about 4 cm
(see Section 8.3).
One of the purposes of this chapter is to pay tribute to the
success of the intensive effort that has been devoted to the
technical details of altimetry over the past 2 decades. The
present ~4 cm state-of-the-art overall accuracy of the sea-
surface height estimates h has been achieved through ma-
jor technological advancements in precision orbit determi-
nation and a dedicated effort to improve each of more than
40 sensor and geophysical algorithms. This attention to algo-
rithm improvements has transformed altimetry from a semi-
quantitative measurement of the sea-surface height for which
the distinction between measurement errors and geophysical
signals was sometimes difficult to discern, to a highly quan-
titative measure of sea-surface height variability that is pro-
viding insight into the wide range of dynamical processes
summarized in later chapters. Moreover, a major benefit of
the high degree of accuracy that has been achieved with the
TOPEX/POSEIDON dual-frequency altimeter is that it is no
longer essential for users to be deeply versed in all of the id-
iosyncrasies of satellite altimetry. Altimetry has thus become
a standard tool for oceanographic research.
The interest in ever more subtle signals with smaller-
amplitude sea-surface height signatures in the altimeter data
demands a thorough understanding of the errors of each of
the corrections applied to altimeter data. As various algo-
rithms have improved, errors in other algorithms that were
once considered of secondary concern have become the fo-
cus of attention. Each of the corrections that must be applied
for accurate determination of the sea-surface height by satel-
lite altimetry is described from basic principles in this chap-
ter. Although full wavenumber-frequency descriptions of the
various measurement errors are not yet available, the magni-
tudes of the errors of each of the corrections can be estimated
as described herein. If not taken into consideration, some of
these errors might be mistakenly interpreted as variations of
the sea surface height.
As summarized above and shown schematically in Fig-
ure 1, accurate determination of the orbit height H is an
integral part of altimetric determination of the sea-surface
height h. Indeed, the improvement in orbit accuracy by more
than two orders of magnitude over the past decade is the pri-
mary reason for the improved accuracy and utility of altime-
ter data. A detailed discussion of the evolution of precision
orbit determination is therefore included as Section 4 in this
chapter.
Accurate estimates of R and H are not sufficient for
oceanographic applications of altimeter range measure-
ments. The sea-surface height given by Eq. (2) relative to
the reference ellipsoid is the superposition of a number of
geophysical effects. In addition to the dynamic effects of
geostrophic ocean currents that are of primary interest for
oceanographic applications (see Chapters 2, 3, and 4), h
is affected by undulations of the geoid
h g
about the ellip-
soidal approximation (Chapter 10), tidal height variations
h r (Chapter 6), and the ocean surface response
ha
to
at-
mospheric pressure loading (Chapter 2). These effects on
the sea-surface height must be modeled and removed from
h in order to investigate the effects of geostrophic currents
on the sea surface height field. The geoid undulations, tidal
height and atmospheric pressure loading contributions to h
are briefly described here in Section 5; more detailed discus-
sions are given in later chapters. The dynamic sea-surface
height is thus estimated as
hd = h - hg - hr -- ha
= H-R+ZARj-hg-hr-ha.
(3)
J
While complicating altimetric estimation of the range R,
the alteration of the incident radar pulse by the rough sea
surface can be utilized to extract other geophysical informa-
tion from the radar returns. In particular, the significant wave
height 3 can be estimated from the shape of the returned sig-
nal as described in Sections 2.4.2 and 6. In addition, since the
sea-surface roughness is highly correlated with near-surface
winds, the wind speed can be estimated from the power of
the returned signal as described in Section 7.
The emphasis throughout this chapter is on the correction
algorithms applied to the dual-frequency altimeter onboard
the TOPEX/POSEIDON satellite (referred to hereafter as
T/P). This state-of-the-art altimeter sets the standard for fu-
ture altimeter missions since it is significantly more accurate
than any of the other altimeters that have been launched to
date. After discussions of the various elements of satellite
estimation of the sea surface height as outlined above, the
chapter concludes with a summary of the T/P mission de-
3As discussed in Sections 2.4.1 and 6, the significant wave height is a
traditional characterization of the wave height field that is approximately
equal to four times the standard deviation of the wave heights within the
altimeter footprint.
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SATELLITE ALTIMETRY AND EARTH SCIENCES
sign and an assessment of the performance of the T/P dual-
frequency altimeter in Section 8. An overview of future al-
timeter missions is given in Section 9.
2. RADAR MEASUREMENT PRINCIPLES
Because of a fortuitous combination of physical prop-
erties of the atmosphere and the sea surface, the fre-
quencies most well suited to satellite altimetry fall within
the microwave frequency range of 2-18 GHz. Accord-
ing to the frequency band allocations defined in Sec-
tion 1-3.2 of Ulaby
et al.
(1981), this encompasses S-band
(1.55-4.20 GHz), C-band (4.20-5.75 GHz), X-band (5.75-
10.9 GHz), and Ku-band (10.9-22.0 GHz) radar frequen-
cies. Graybody emission of electromagnetic radiation from
the sea surface is very weak and the reflectivity of water
is high in this frequency band, thus allowing easy distinc-
tion between radar return and natural emission. At frequen-
cies higher than 18 GHz, atmospheric attenuation rapidly
increases, thus decreasing the power of the transmitted sig-
nal that reaches the sea surface and the reflected signal that
is received by the altimeter. At lower frequencies, Faraday
rotation and refraction of electromagnetic radiation by the
ionosphere increase and interference increases from ground-
based civilian and military sources of electromagnetic radia-
tion related to communications, navigation, and radar. In ad-
dition, practical design constraints on the size of spaceborne
antennas set a lower limit on the frequencies useful for satel-
lite altimetry. The antenna footprint size on the sea surface is
proportional to the wavelength of the electromagnetic radia-
tion and inversely proportional to the antenna size. A beam-
limited footprint diameter of 5 km, for example, would re-
quire an impractically large antenna diameter of about 7.7 m
for the Ku-band microwave frequency of 13.6 GHz at the
T/P orbit height of 1336 km [see Eq. (22) in Section 2.4].
Spatial resolution of altimetric measurements from smaller
antennas is enhanced by a technique known as pulse com-
pression. These and other principles of radar altimetry are
summarized in this section.
measured by the radar thus depends upon the scattering char-
acter of the sea surface, the parameters of the radar system,
and two-way attenuation by the intervening atmosphere.
The physical factors that affect the signal received by the
altimeter can be understood by considering a radar antenna
illuminating a footprint area A f on the sea surface from a
height R above the sea surface at a pointing angle 0 with
corresponding slant range
Ro,
as shown in Figure 2. Be-
cause of the curvature of the sea surface owing to the el-
lipsoidal shape of the earth and the presence of local geoid
undulations, there is a distinction between the pointing angle
and the antenna incidence angle (see Figure 2). The antenna
pointing angle 0 is the angle between the boresight of the
antenna (i.e., the peak of the antenna gain) and the line from
the satellite center of mass to the point on the earth's surface
that is vertically beneath the satellite (referred to as the nadir
point). The incidence angle 0' is the angle between the line
of propagation and the normal to the sea surface at the point
of incidence. For the small incidence angles less than ,~ 1 o
relevant to altimetry and the small geoid slopes that only
very rarely exceed 10 -4 (Brenner
et al.,
1990; Minster
et al.,
1993), the two angles are very nearly identical. Likewise, R
and
Ro
are very nearly identical for altimetry.
The parameters of the radar system are the wavelength
~. of the transmitted and received electromagnetic radiation,
the transmitted power
Pt
in watts, and the transmitting and
receiving antenna gains
Gt
and
Gr.
Since altimeter systems
use the same antenna to transmit and receive the radar pulses,
Gt
and
Gr
are
essentially the same and both can therefore
be denoted simply by G. The backscattered power from a
2.1. Normalized Radar Cross Section
The relationship between the power of the signal trans-
mitted by a radar altimeter and the backscattered power that
is received by the altimeter is fundamentally important to
altimetry. The electromagnetic radiation that is transmitted
toward the sea surface is attenuated by the intervening at-
mosphere. The signal that reaches the sea surface is partly
absorbed by seawater and partly scattered from the rough
sea surface over a wide range of directions. The power that
is reflected back to the altimeter is then attenuated by the
intervening atmosphere. The power of the returned signal
FIGURE 2 Schematic representation of satellite measurements of the
radar return from the approximately ellipsoidal sea surface with large-scale
geoid undulations. The angles 0 and 0 t are the antenna pointing angle and
incidence angle, respectively; R is the satellite altitude above the nadir
point;
RO
is the slant range of the radar measurement at pointing angle 0;
and A
f
is the antenna footprint area.
1. SATELLITE ALTIMETRY 5
differential area
d A
within the antenna footprint on the sea
surface is related to X, Pt and the range R from the satellite
to the target area by
G2xZ P t
d Pr -- t 2 (47r)3
R 4
O', (4)
where the proportionality factor cr has units of area and
t)~ (R, 0) is the atmospheric transmittance, defined to be the
fraction of electromagnetic radiation at wavelength X that
is transmitted through the atmosphere from an altitude R
at off-nadir angle 0. The two-way transmittance is t 2 (R, 0).
A detailed derivation of Eq. (4) can be found in Section 7.1
of Ulaby
et al. (1986a).
This so-called radar equation is
equivalent to characterizing the backscattered power from
the location
d A
as having been isotropically scattered by a
fictitious sphere with cross-sectional area or. The proportion-
ality factor cr is thus referred to as the radar cross section of
the differential target area dA.
For oceanographic applications, the total returned power
received by the radar antenna is backscattered from a dis-
tributed target (the rough sea surface) over the area
A f
that
is illuminated by the antenna, rather than from a point-source
target within the antenna footprint. In this case,
dPr
and o-
are meaningful only when they are considered to be the av-
erage quantities over all of the differential target areas
dA
within the field of view. The scattering properties of the
sea surface within the antenna footprint are characterized
by the differential radar cross section per unit area, which
is denoted as o0 and is related to the radar cross section by
cr = crod A.
In general, the dimensionless quantity or0 (re-
ferred to as the normalized radar cross section and expressed
in decibels) varies spatially over the antenna footprint. The
total returned power is obtained by integrating over the re-
turns from each differential area illuminated by the antenna,
X2 pt s
Pr -- t 2 (47r)BR4
G2ryodA.
(5)
f
This expression assumes that the antenna footprint area is
small enough that R and t;~ can be considered constant over
the footprint. The antenna gain is retained inside of the in-
tegral since G depends on off-axis angle and, to a lesser ex-
tent, azimuthal angle and therefore varies across the antenna
footprint area.
With the exception of o0, each quantity on the right side
of Eq. (5) is either a known parameter of the radar system
(G,)~, and
Pt)
or a physical parameter of the medium be-
tween the altimeter and the target (R and &). If the normal-
ized radar cross section o0 is spatially homogeneous over the
antenna footprint or is considered to be the average differen-
tial cross section per unit area over the antenna footprint,
then it can be passed through the integral on the right side
of Eq. (5). Then Eq. (5) can be rearranged to express or0 in
terms of the measured returned power
Pr
and the parameters
of the radar system. The radar equation can then be written
in the more useful form
(47r)3R 4
Pr,
(6)
rYO - t2G2X2Aeff p t
where Go is the boresight antenna gain and Aeff is the
"effective footprint area" defined to be the area integral
of
G2(O)/G 2
over the angles 0 subtended by the antenna
beamwidth. In Section 2.4.2, a distinction is made between
the footprint area within the beamwidth of the antenna and
the area within this footprint that is actually illuminated by
the radar.
Since all of the quantities in the multiplicative factor on
the right side of Eq. (6) are known parameters of the radar
system or can be determined from the measurement geome-
try, the returned power
Pr
and hence cr0 depend only on the
radar scattering characteristics (the "roughness") of the tar-
get area. The sea-surface roughness increases with increas-
ing wind speed. At the small incidence angles relevant to
satellite altimetry, Pr and therefore or0 decrease monotoni-
cally with increasing wind speed. Near-surface wind speed
can therefore be inferred from altimetric measurements of
the radar return. Expressed in decibels, a typical altimetric
measurement of o0 is about 11 dB. It is shown in Section 7
that or0 decreases from 20 dB at very low wind speed to about
5 dB at a wind speed of 30 m sec -1 (see Figure 56).
An important property of or0 can be deduced from Eq. (6).
If the scattering characteristics of the sea surface are statis-
tically homogeneous over the antenna footprint, then o0 is
insensitive to the distance between the radar antenna and the
sea surface. This is easily seen by noting that the radiant flux
density of electromagnetic radiation emanating from a point
source falls off as the square of the distance from the source.
The transmitted power that reaches the sea surface there-
fore decreases as R -2. Likewise, the backscattered power
that reaches the satellite also falls off as R -2. The power
Pr
received by the radar therefore decreases as R -4 from
spreading loss, in accord with Eq. (5). The resulting R -4 de-
pendence of
Pr
is exactly offset by the R -4 dependence in
the numerator of Eq. (6). Thus, assuming that proper cor-
rections for atmospheric transmittance & (R, 0) are applied,
measurements of or0 are independent of the altitude of the
measurement. Aircraft measurements of o0 are therefore the
same as those made from a satellite at any altitude, 4 as long
as the scattering properties of the sea surface are equivalent
over the footprints of the different radars.
4As noted by Rodrfguez (1988) and Chelton
et al.
(1989), cr 0 measured
by a satellite altimeter must be adjusted to account for the approximate
spherical shape of the earth. Depending on the orbit height R, this results in
a 10-20% reduction of cr 0 compared with the flat-earth approximation (see
Section 2.4.1).
6
SATELLITE ALTIMETRY AND EARTH SCIENCES
2.2. Ocean Surface Reflectivity
Thorough discussions of the theory of radar backscatter
from the sea surface can be found in Ulaby
et al. (1986a,
1986b). A brief overview is given here. The phenomena re-
sponsible for radar return from a rough sea surface are rea-
sonably well understood theoretically. The solution for the
radar backscatter can be obtained based on the principles
of physical optics, for which the scattered electromagnetic
fields are determined from the electromagnetic current dis-
tribution induced on the sea surface by the incident radar
signal. Alternatively, the solution can be obtained based on
geometrical optics, for which the wavelength of the radar
signal is considered to vanish and the electromagnetic radi-
ation is treated as a bundle of rays. Both approaches lead
to essentially the same result. At the small incidence angles
relevant to altimetry, Barrick (1968) and Barrick and Peake
(1968) showed that the radar return measured at the satellite
consists of the total specular return from all of the mirror-like
facets oriented perpendicular to the incident radiation within
the antenna footprint. The normalized radar cross section for
small pointing angle 0 is given by
cro(O ,~ O) -- 7rp2(O~
(y)lfx=fy=O,
(7)
where ( is the sea-surface height relative to mean sea level,
p(0 ~ is the Fresnel reflectivity for normal incidence angle
(defined to be the fraction of incident radiation that is re-
flected) and
p(gx, (y)
is the joint probability density func-
tion of long-wave sea surface slopes (x and (y in two or-
thogonal directions. Here "long wave" means the portion of
the ocean wave spectrum with wavelengths longer than that
of the radar signal (approximately 2.2 cm for the 13.6 GHz
primary frequency of the T/P dual-frequency altimeter). The
joint probability density function
p(gx, (y)
in Eq. (7) is eval-
uated at (x = (y = 0 for the specular scatterers.
The radar return at small incidence angles thus depends
explicitly on the spectral characteristics of long waves on
the sea surface and on the reflectivity of sea water. It also
depends on the radar frequency through the implicit depen-
dence of p(0 ~ on frequency. The reflectivity for normal in-
cidence angle is shown in Figure 3 as a function of frequency
for fresh water. (The presence of dissolved salts introduces
minor changes to the reflectivity only at frequencies lower
than about 1 GHz.) It is apparent that water is about an or-
der of magnitude more reflective at microwave frequencies
than at visible or infrared frequencies. For a given antenna
beamwidth, the much lower power requirement for a radar
transmitter at microwave frequencies than at infrared or vis-
ible frequencies is a distinct advantage for radar measure-
ments at small incidence angles.
To a first degree of approximation, the long-wave sea-
surface height distribution can be modeled as isotropic with
a Gaussian probability density function. Then Eq. (7) be-
comes
p2(0~ sec40 exp (
tan2 0)
o-0(0 ~0)-- 2s 2 9 2s 2 ,
(8)
where
S 2
is the mean square of the sea surface slopes. The
radar return at small incidence angles thus decreases with
increasing roughness of the sea surface (i.e., increasing s2).
Physically, a greater fraction of the incident radiation re-
flects specularly in directions away from the radar receiver.
Since the sea surface roughness increases with increasing
wind speed, or0 at small incidence angles is inversely re-
lated to wind speed. For a specified spectral density of the
sea-surface elevation, or0 can be computed accurately from
theory. What is required in order to determine wind speed
from measurements of or0 is a theoretical relation between
the wind field and the ocean wave spectrum.
1.00
O
tm
t-
<
O
t--
q)
"o 0.10
,m
O
r
m
E,
.--- 0.01
O
m
rr
Frequency (GHz)
106 105 104 103 102 10 1
Pure
Wat~
~inf Visible
Near Thermal Middle Far
rared Infrared Infrared . !nfrarecl .4* Microwave
200nm 1 gm 10gm 100gm 1 mm 1 cm 10cm 1 rn
Wavelength
FIGURE 3 The reflectivity at normal incidence angle for fresh water at 25~ for a smooth surface as a function of
frequency and the corresponding wavelength of the electromagnetic radiation. (From Maul, 1985. With permission.)
1. SATELLITE ALTIMETRY
7
At present, the relation between wind speed and the
ocean wave spectrum is not well understood. Indeed, the
mechanism for transfer of energy from the wind to ocean
waves is one of the important unsolved problems in phys-
ical oceanography. The input of wind energy to short cap-
illary and gravity-capillary waves depends on the velocity
profile near the sea surface and on wind-induced turbulence
in the air. The surface-wave amplitude is thus presumably re-
lated in some way to the friction velocity or the wind stress.
Although significant progress has been made in relating the
wave spectrum to the wind (e.g., Plant, 1986; Donelan and
Pierson, 1987), the most accurate models relating or0 to the
near-surface wind are still purely empirical. These models
express o0 as a function of the wind speed at a reference
height of 10 m above the sea surface (see Section 7).
2.3. Atmospheric Attenuation
2.3.1. Clear-Sky Attenuation
The transmittance tk for cloud-free subpolar, midlatitude,
and tropical atmospheres is shown in Figure 4 as a func-
1.0
1.0
, ..... I ' I' ' I ' I '
......,.. .. ........ ,o.
c
0.4-
' I t
0.2
0.0 , I , I ,, ,
0 40
80 120 160
F-
I ~ I ' I i
t
..........
GG:
..........
"
q/ ,
..I-. ~,,..-. J_._ , I
200 240 280
Frequency (GHz)
,-- -' ......... J ....... ' I ' I ' I
-- ~'~
..... Polar |
~\~. ."" ..........
9
0.9
""'"~
~ iv ,,------4
c-
E= o8-
/
- ~ /
! Tropical
- ~ i
,J
10 20 30 40
Frequency (GHz)
r
t~
0.7
0.6
0
FIGURE 4 The transmittance at normal incidence angle for cloud-free
subpolar (dotted line), midlatitude (solid line) and tropical (dashed line)
atmospheres as a function of frequency. The frequency range 0 to 300 GHz
(after Grody, 1976) is shown in the upper panel and an enlargement for
the frequency range 0 to 40 GHz (data courtesy of E Wentz, based on the
atmospheric model of Liebe, 1985) is shown in the lower panel.
tion of frequency at incidence angle 0' = 0 ~ (generally re-
ferred to as normal incidence) for microwave frequencies
between 1 and 300 GHz. The one-way attenuation is cor-
respondingly defined as (1 - tk). The salient features of Fig-
ure 4 are a moderately strong water vapor absorption line
centered at 22.235 GHz, a strong oxygen absorption band
between 50 and 70 GHz, a strong oxygen absorption line at
118.75 GHz, and a strong water vapor absorption band cen-
tered at 183.31 GHz. The oxygen and water vapor molecules
that contribute to the attenuation are almost entirely con-
fined to the troposphere, which extends to altitudes of less
than 10 km at midlatitudes and about 18 km in the tropics
(see, for example, Figure 1.10 of Wallace and Hobbs, 1977).
From the differences between the curves in Figure 4 for a dry
subpolar atmosphere and a moist tropical atmosphere, it is
apparent that atmospheric transmittance generally decreases
with increasing frequency, owing primarily to the presence
of water vapor.
At the Ku-band frequency of 13.6 GHz that is the primary
frequency of the dual-frequency T/P altimeter, the clear-sky
one-way transmittance at normal incidence angle is seldom
less than 0.96 (see Figure 4), even in a moist, tropical at-
mosphere. From the radar Eq. (5), the power of the received
signal is determined by the two-way transmittance t 2. The
corresponding two-way attenuation (1 - t 2) at 13.6 GHz is
therefore generally less than 8%. At the secondary C-band
frequency of 5.3 GHz used to correct for ionospheric re-
fraction of the T/P range estimates (see Section 3.1.3), the
clear-sky one-way transmittance exceeds 0.98 (see Figure 4).
The clear-sky atmospheric attenuation at 5.3 GHz is thus less
than half that at 13.6 GHz.
The total attenuation of electromagnetic radiation with
wavelength k is characterized by the opacity (also referred
to as the optical thickness) of the atmosphere along the prop-
agation path. The opacity v~ is related to the transmittance
& by
tk - e -Tx (9)
Since the transmittance is the fraction of electromagnetic ra-
diation that is transmitted through the atmosphere, it is ap-
parent from Eq. (9) that the transmittance decreases expo-
nentially with increasing opacity.
The water vapor and dry-air (primarily oxygen) attenua-
tions of the returned power from which or0 is calculated by
the radar Eq. (6) are easily corrected. Since atmospheric gas
molecules are much smaller than the radar wavelength, at-
tenuation of or0 through a cloud-free atmosphere is governed
by Rayleigh scattering. The attenuation at any point z along
the path of propagation is therefore proportional to the air
density at that location. The total opacity of the cloud-free
atmosphere is thus proportional to the integrals of dry-air
gas and water vapor densities Pdry and Pvap along the propa-
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