Review of CFOSAT product series and quality evaluation results of wind/wave data
SUN Congrong
DIAO Ninghui
XU Ying
LANG Shuyan
Abstract：The China-France Oceanography SATellite(CFOSAT),jointly developed by China and France and launched in 2018,has been in orbit for more than 5 years.Onboard pay loads include Surface Waves Investigation and Monitoring(SWIM)spectrometer and a fan-beam rotary scanning microwave CFOSAT SCATterometer(CSCAT),which provide the simultaneous remote sensing data of global sea surface wind field and wave spectrum.The level 1-4 data products of CFOSAT include backscattering coefficient,along-track wind field/wave spectrum of the sea surface,global gridded wind field/wave spectrum,wide-swatch wave,polar sea ice,multi-satellite fusion wind field/significant wave height,etc.,which provide a new data source for marine environment prediction,marine disaster monitoring and global climate change research.This paper introduces CFOSAT product series,and the quality evaluation results of wind/wave data from global scholars and institutions.
Keywords：China-France Oceanography SATellite(CFOSAT)Surface Waves Investigation and Monitoring(SWIM)spectrometerfan-beam rotary scanning microwave scatterometersea wave spectrumsea surface wind field
Publication Date：2024-12-30
Online Publishing Date：2026-05-22(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：11( 1-11 )