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Acquisition of the Wide Swath Significant Wave Height From HY-2C Through Deep Learning
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  • Jichao Wang,
  • Ting Yu,
  • Fangyu Deng,
  • Yongjun Jia,
  • Zongli Ruan
Jichao Wang
China University of Petroleum, China University of Petroleum
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Ting Yu
China University of Petroleum, China University of Petroleum
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Fangyu Deng
China University of Petroleum, China University of Petroleum
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Yongjun Jia
National Satellite Ocean Application Service, National Satellite Ocean Application Service

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Zongli Ruan
China University of Petroleum
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Abstract

The significant wave height (SWH) is of great importance in industries such as ocean engineering, marine resource development, shipping and transportation. Haiyang-2C (HY-2C), the 2nd operational satellite of China’s marine dynamic exploration series, can provide all-weather, all-day, global observations of wave height, wind, and temperature. In this paper, a deep learning approach is applied to build a wide swath model based on the SWH from the altimeter and the wind speed from the scatterometer of HY-2C. Two validation sets, 1-month data at 6-minute intervals and 1-day data with an interval of 10 s, are fed into the trained model. Experiments indicate that the extending nadir SWH yields a real-time wide swath grid product along track, which can be offered as support for oceanographic study, and it is superior to take the swell characteristics of ERA5 into account as the input of wide swath SWH model. In conclusion, the verification results demonstrate the effectiveness and feasibility of the wide swath SWH model.