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A series of experiments are conducted to investigate the influence of temporal and spatial resolutions on the errors of tracked winds. It is shown that the wind accuracy from tracking the specific humidity is higher than that from tracking the relative humidity. For fast-evolving weather systems such as typhoons, the shorter time step allows for more accurate wind retrievals, whereas for slow to moderate evolving weather conditions, the longer time step is needed for smaller retrieval errors. Compared to the traditional atmospheric motion vectors (AMVs) algorithm, the Farneback OF wind algorithm achieves a pixel-wise feature tracking and obtains a higher spatial resolution of wind field. It also works well under some special circumstances such as very low water vapor content or the region where the wind direction is parallel to the moisture gradient direction. This study has some significant implications for the configuration of satellite microwave sounding missions through their derived water vapor fields. The required temporal and spatial resolutions in the OF algorithm critically determine the satellite revisiting time and the field of view size. The brightness temperature (BT) simulated through Community Radiative Transfer Model (CRTM) is also used to track winds. It is shown that the error of tracking BT is generally larger than that of tracking water vapor. 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