Abstract
A two-dimensional ensemble empirical mode decomposition (2D-EEMD)-based method is presented to improve wind direction retrieval from rain-contaminated X-band nautical radar sea surface images. 2D-EEMD is first implemented to decompose each rain-contaminated radar image into several intrinsic mode function (IMF) components. Then, a harmonic function that is least-squares fitted to the standard deviation of the first IMF component as a function of azimuth is used to retrieve the wind direction. Radar and anemometer data acquired in a sea trial off the east coast of Canada under rain conditions are employed to test the algorithm. The result shows that, compared to the traditional curve fitting method, the proposed method improves the wind direction results in rain events, showing a reduction of 35.9° in the root-mean-square (RMS) difference with respect to the reference.
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