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The improved two-dimensional surface wind field measurements provided by the HIRAD approach are crucial to improved forecasts and warnings. For almost a decade, HIRAD has been used in research flights over hurricanes; however, because of various hardware issues, the scientific potential of its measurements has not been fulfilled. This paper presents a reanalysis of HIRAD measurements over Hurricane Gonzalo on 17 October 2014 that demonstrate remarkable results. The basis for this novel approach is to use coincident surface wind speed (WS) and rain rate (RR) measurements from another source to calibrate the HIRAD brightness temperature measurements. As a result, the HIRAD retrievals of WS and RR are in excellent agreement with the accompanying airborne remote sensors and in situ surface wind speed measurements, which validates the HIRAD technique proof of concept.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14153634","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,8,1]],"date-time":"2022-08-01T04:04:00Z","timestamp":1659326640000},"page":"3634","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Experimental Proof of Concept for the Hurricane Imaging Radiometer (HIRAD) Measurement of a Hurricane Ocean Surface Wind Speed Field"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Jonathan","family":"Coto","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Central Florida Remote Sensing Lab, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8796-4598","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"W. 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