The Influence of Rainfall on Scatterometer Backscatter Within Tropical Cyclone Environments - Implications on Parameterization of Sea-Surface Stress.

The use of satellite scatterometers to probe the winds in and near strong tropical cyclones (TCs) is a valuable tool for both numerical weather prediction and weather forecasters. The presence of widespread rain in these storms impedes the estimation of surface winds from the radar cross section measurements, when using a Ku-band radar. This paper seeks improvements in the methodology to infer sur...