Ocean surface (10 m) wind speed data is available from CYGNSS NOAA, Muon, and Spire. A converter is first needed to bring it into IODA-format. Since it is only wind speed (no direction), an obs function is also needed in UFO to estimate the wind velocity components.
Wind speed (no direction) is retrieved for CYGNSS: using the NOAA GMF v1.0 and the NOAA trackwise debiasing algorithm; Muon: using neural nets; and Spire: using the empirical relation between Sigma0 and background ECMWF 10m wind).
Description
Ocean surface (10 m) wind speed data is available from
CYGNSS NOAA,Muon, andSpire. A converter is first needed to bring it into IODA-format. Since it is only wind speed (no direction), anobs functionis also needed inUFOto estimate the wind velocity components.Wind speed (no direction) is retrieved for CYGNSS: using the NOAA GMF v1.0 and the NOAA trackwise debiasing algorithm; Muon: using neural nets; and Spire: using the empirical relation between Sigma0 and background ECMWF 10m wind).
Each source provides netCDF files.
Dependent PRs
CYGNSS converter: https://github.com/JCSDA-internal/ioda-converters/pull/1449 Muon converter: https://github.com/JCSDA-internal/ioda-converters/pull/1436 Spire converter: https://github.com/JCSDA-internal/ioda-converters/pull/1447
Should these be combined into 1?