简介:Thegeophysicalmodelfunction(GMF)describestherelationshipbetweenbackscatteringandseasurfacewind,sothatwindvectorscanberetrievedfrombackscatteringmeasurement.TheGMFplaysanimportantroleinoceanwindvectorretrievals,itsperformancewilldirectlyinfluencetheaccuracyoftheretrievedwindvector.Neuralnetwork(NN)approachisusedtodevelopaunifiedGMFforC-bandandKu-band(NN-GMF).EmpiricalGMFCMOD4andQSCAT-1areusedtogeneratethesimulatedtrainingdata-set,andGaussiannoiseatasignalnoiseratioof30dBisaddedtothedata-settosimulatethenoiseinthebackscatteringmeasurement.TheNN-GMFemploysradiofrequencyasanadditionalparameter,soitcanbeappliedforbothC-bandandKu-band.Analysesshowthattheσ0predictedbytheNN-GMFiscomparablewiththeσ0predictedbyCMOD4andQSCAT-1.AlsothewindvectorsretrievedfromtheNN-GMFandempiricalGMFCMOD4andQSCAT-1arecomparable,indicatingthattheNN-GMFisaseffectiveastheempiricalGMF,andhastheadvantagesoftheuniversalform.
简介:Permittivityofaseafoamlayerisveryimportantininvestigatingoceanbrightnesstemperaturemodel.Atmicrowavefrequency,theRayleighmethodisdevelopedtoestimatetheeffectivepermittivityoftheseafoamlayer.TosimplifythetediouscalculationofseafoameffectivepermittivityatLband(1.4GHz),Pade’approximationisadoptedtofittheseafoameffectivepermittivitycomputedbytheRayleighmethod.Withthisfittingformula,anewbrightnesstemperaturemodelofseafoamlayerdefinedbycertaingeophysicalparameters,suchasairvolumefraction(AVF),seasurfacetemperature(SST),seasurfacesalinity(SSS)andthicknessoffoamlayerd,isgiven.Furthermore,thesensitivitiesofthebrightnesstemperaturemodeltoSST,SSS,dandAVFofaseafoamlayeratLbandarediscussed.Thesensitivitiesarerankedfrommosttoleastintheorder:(1)d;(2)AVF;(3)SSS;(4)SST.ThisresultindicatesthatthemeasurementerrorsofdandAVFhavesignificantimpactsontheretrievalsofSSSandSST.Withtheexperimentalbrightnesstemperaturedata,theSSSandAFVareretrievedbycostfunction.
简介:Afatiguelifeestimationmethodforoffshorestructuresunderrandomstressresponseisstudiedinthispaper.Themethodofbroadbandcumulativefrequencynumberisusedtodeterminetheeffectofbandwidthofstressfrequencyspectraonfatigue.AformulaofcorrectionfactorforfatigueunderbroadbandstressspectraissuggestedandcomparedwiththatgivenbyP.H.Wirsching.