A Comparison of HY-2 and QuikSCAT Vector Wind Products for Tropical Cyclone Track and Intensity Development Monitoring.

China is the country worst affected by tropical cyclones in the Asia-Pacific region. The use of remote sensing data can help improve emergency preparedness for such events. In this letter, we evaluate the performance of HY-2 scatterometer data for monitoring Saola, Haikui, and Usagi typhoons, and consider QuikSCAT data for Florence, Ioke, and Gorden hurricanes. We use the means and standard deviat...