An algorithm to derive wind speed and direction as well as ocean wave directional spectra from HF radar backscatter measurements based on neural network [Elektronische Ressource] / vorgelegt von Wei Shen

Wei Shen

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• Publié par: universitat_hamburg
• Publié le: 01 janvier 2011
• Nombre de lectures: 21
• Langue: English
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An algorithm to derive wind speed and direction as well
as ocean wave directional spectra from HF radar
backscatter measurements based on neural network
Dissertation
Zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades
der Naturwissenschaften
im Department Geowissenschaften
der Universität Hamburg
vorgelegt von
Wei Shen
aus
Jiangsu, P.R.China
Hamburg
2011Als Dissertation angenommen vom Department Geowissenschaften der Universtät Ham-
burg
Auf Grund der Gutachten von Prof. Dr. Detlef Stammer
und Dr. Klaus-Werner Gurgel
Hamburg, den _________
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Oßenbrügge
Leiter des Departments GeowissenschaftenAbstract
The technology of land-based High Frequency (HF, 3–30 MHz) radar has the unique ca-
pability of continuously monitoring ocean surface parameters up to 200 km off the coast.
The HF radar system developed at the University of Hamburg can provide reliable surface
current and wave observations. Wind direction measurement is also possible, however, wind
speed measurement is still a problem. In the coastal area with a complex topography, the
atmospheric and oceanic conditions vary spatially and temporally. For example, the ther-
mal contrast between the land and the ocean produces the daily changing land-sea breeze,
and mountains at the coast affect the wind speed and direction significantly. All these
make the mesoscale weather systems and associated surface winds in the coastal region
complicated. HF radar can solve this problem due to its high resolution (300 m - 1500 m)
and it can be operated in real-time and at all weather conditions.
A large amount of ocean data is nowadays collected by remote sensing methods using
electromagnetic waves scattered from the rough sea surface. Various techniques for solving
inversion problems have been proposed over the last few decades. Among these, Artificial
Neural Network (ANN) is ideally suited for applications where the relationship of input
and output is either unknown or too complex to be described analytically. In this work,
the basic idea is to use the input-output pairs generated by the radar data and in-situ
measurements to train the network. This study therefore addresses the issue using a neural
network to tackle the complexity and non-linearity of both radar remote sensing and the
wind-wave relationship.
In order to investigate how wind acts on the sea surface in a controlled environment, the
HIPOCAS (HIndcast of dynamic Processes of the Ocean and Coastal AreaS) wave model
data is analyzed to get a better understanding of the relationship between the wind and
waves. Asaresult, newmethodsareproposedforwindinversionfromHFradarbackscatter.
In this dissertation, the wind inversion from HF radar remote sensing is verified by two
experiments: theFedjeexperimentinNorwayandtheLigurianSeaexperimentinItaly. The
radar operates at a frequency of 27.68 MHz during the Fedje experiment, providing shorter
radar working range but higher range resolution. During the Ligurian Sea experiment, the
radar operates at 12-13 MHz, covering a range up to 120 kilometers. In-situ wind and wave
measurements are used to train the neural network. This dissertation presents the wind
wave and HF radar scattering theory as well as the wind inversion using neural networks
and conventional approaches.
iiiivAcknowledgments
I would like to express my gratitude to Dr. Klaus-Werner Gurgel for guiding me throughout
this study. I am grateful to him for introducing me to the study of ocean surface dynamics
and wind inversion techniques. It has been my great pleasure to work with him, and I
always obtain more help than I expected. His kindness, generosity, patience and invaluable
ideas help me out of difficulties from my first day here.
I would like to thank my advisor, Prof. Dr. Detlef Stammer, for offering me the op-
portunity to finish this dissertation in the remote sensing group at the Center for Marine
and Atmospheric Sciences. I want to thank him for his continuous assistance, guidance and
suggestions for my dissertation.
Thanks are also given to Dr. Heniz Günther at the Helmholz-Zentrum Geesthacht
(HZG, former GKSS), for providing me the HIPOCAS WAM model data. The model re-
sult provided invaluable assistance for developing some new algorithms in this dissertation.
Many thanks to my colleagues and friends, especially to Thomas Schlick, for his help
of processing the Radar RAW data, sharing ideas and programming skills with me. An-
dreas, FraukeandMeikealsohelpmeduringmydailylife. ThanksarealsogiventoJianSu,
CuiChen, ChaoLiandmanyotherfriendswhohavehelpedmeduringmystayinHamburg.
Thanks are also delivered to Prof. George Voulgaris from University of South Carolina,
for his invaluable suggestions to my presentation and dissertation. We had a good time in
Hamburg.
This work was funded by a scholarship from the China Scholarship Council (CSC) of
People’s Republic of China under the contract number 2007U13032.
Finally, I am very grateful for my family and friends who have given me constant
support.
vContents
1 Introduction 1
1.1 State of Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.2 Scientific Goals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.3 Scope and Outline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2 Wind Wave Theory and Wave Models 5
2.1 Wind waves at the sea surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.1.1 Wave basic definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.1.2 Ocean wave spectrum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.2 HIPOCAS WAM data analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.2.1 HIPOCAS WAM mode introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.2.2 Spatial and directional analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.2.3 Temporal and frequency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.3 Wind direction and wave directional distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.3.1 Half-cosine 2s-power type spreading function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.3.2 Hyperbolic secant-squared type spreading function . . . . . . . . . . 15
2.4 Wind speed inversion from wave spectrum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
2.4.1 Dimensionless parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
2.4.2 SMB curves for wind speed inversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
3 HF Radar Remote Sensing and Wind Inversion 21
3.1 Introduction to HF radar remote sensing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
3.1.1 WERA system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
3.1.2 Physical scattering model and radar cross section . . . . . . . . . . . 24
3.2 Wind direction and radar backscatter echoes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
3.3 Wind determination with two radars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
3.3.1 Least Square Minimum (LSM) method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
3.3.2 Multi-beam method using one radar site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
3.3.3 Pattern fitting with a varying spreading parameter . . . . . . . . . . 35
3.4 Wind speed and radar backscatter echoes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
3.4.1 Wind speed inversion from HF echoes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
3.4.2 Wind speed inversion from the first-order peaks . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
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3.4.3 Wind speed inversion from the second-order sidebands . . . . . . . . 44
3.5 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
4 Neural Network and Approaches of Wind Inversion 49
4.1 Neural network and remote sensing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
4.2 Principle of artificial neural network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
4.2.1 Artificial neuron models and transfer functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
4.2.2 Neural network structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
4.2.3 Introduction to back-propagation network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
4.3 Neural network design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
4.3.1 Layers and number of neurons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
4.3.2 Training, validation and test data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
4.3.3 Dependent variables selection for neural network . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
4.4 Methodology of wind inversion from waves and radar remote sensing . . . . . 63
4.4.1 Wind inversion from waves at certain frequencies . . . . . . . . . . . 64
4.4.2 Method of wind inversion from radar first-order backscatter . . . . . 65
4.4.3 Wind inversion from wave spectra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
4.4.4 Method of wind inversion from radar second-order effects . . . . . . . 69
4.4.5 Method of directional wave spectra inversion from radar second-order
backscatter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
4.5 Extension of wind measurements to the other locations within radar coverage 71
4.6 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
5 Radar Experiments and Results of Inversion 77
5.1 Radar experiments and in-situ measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
5.1.1 Fedje experiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
5.1.2 Ligurian Sea experiment . . . . . . . . . . . . .