Quality evaluation and calibration of the SWIM significant wave height product with buoy data

Jing Ye; Yong Wan; Yongshou Dai

doi:10.1007/s13131-021-1835-x

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Jing Ye, Yong Wan, Yongshou Dai. Quality evaluation and calibration of the SWIM significant wave height product with buoy data[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2021, 40(10): 187-196. doi: 10.1007/s13131-021-1835-x

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Jing Ye, Yong Wan, Yongshou Dai. Quality evaluation and calibration of the SWIM significant wave height product with buoy data[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2021, 40(10): 187-196. doi: 10.1007/s13131-021-1835-x

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Quality evaluation and calibration of the SWIM significant wave height product with buoy data

doi: 10.1007/s13131-021-1835-x

Jing Ye¹,
Yong Wan^{2
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Yongshou Dai²

1.
College of Control Science and Engineering, China University of Petroleum, Qingdao 266580, China
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College of Oceanography and Space Informatics, China University of Petroleum, Qingdao 266580, China

Funds: The National Key R&D Program of China under contract No. 2017YFC1405600; the National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract Nos 61931025, 41974144 and 41976173; the Graduate Innovation Project of China University of Petroleum (East China) under contract No. YCX2021124; the Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China under contract No. ZR2019MD016.

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Corresponding author: E-mail: wanyong@upc.edu.cn
Received Date: 2020-09-23
Accepted Date: 2021-03-11

Available Online: 2021-09-13

Publish Date: 2021-10-30

Abstract

Abstract

The significant wave height (SWH) is one of the main parameters that describe wave characteristics and is widely used in wave research fields. Wave parameters measured by radar are influenced by the offshore distance and sea state. Validation and calibration are of great significance for radar data applications. The nadir beam of surface wave investigation and monitoring (SWIM) detects the global-ocean-surface SWH. To determine the product quality of SWIM SWH, this paper carried out time-space matching between SWIM and buoy data. The data qualities were evaluated under different offshore distances and sea states. An improved calibration method was proposed based on sea state segmentation, which considered the distribution of the point collocation numbers in various sea states. The results indicate that (1) the SWIM SWH accuracy at offshore distances greater than 50 km is higher than that at distances less than 50 km, with an root mean squared error (RMSE) of 0.244 4 m, scatter index (SI) of 0.115 6 and relative error (RE) of 9.97% at distances greater than 50 km and those of 0.446 0 m, 0.223 0 and 18.66% at distances less than 50 km. (2) SWIM SWH qualities are better in moderate and rough sea states with RMSEs of 0.284 8 m and 0.316 9 m but are worse in slight and very rough sea states. (3) The effect of the improved calibration method is superior to the traditional method in each sea state and overall data, and the RMSE of SWIM SWH is reduced from the raw 0.313 5 m to 0.285 9 m by the traditional method and 0.198 2 m by the improved method. The influence of spatiotemporal window selection on data quality evaluation was analyzed in this paper. This paper provides references for SWIM SWH product applications.
- significant wave height,
- SWIM,
- buoy,
- validation,
- calibration

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