Data Assimilation of Geostationary Microwave Simulation for Hurricane Sandy

Abstract

Geostationary orbit microwave atmospheric sounding based on interferometric technology is the newest field of microwave remote sensing. Equipped with a microwave atmospheric remote sensing instruments on the geostationary orbit meteorological satellite platform will increase the frequency of observations at the same time, improve the cloud detection capability. The current polar-orbiting meteorological satellite observation system ensures that only six hours of observation period, unable to typhoons and other fast-changing weather systems for real-time observation. This paper mainly focuses on the following two parts: 1) data assimilation of geostationary microwave observations with high temporal and spatial resolution for the full disk and 2) Typhoons path predicted and heavy precipitation inversion.