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We employed three types of sea-surface wind data from oceanic moored buoys operated by the National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) and the Tropical Atmospheric Ocean project (TAO), the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (ECMWF) reanalysis data (ERA-Interim), and the advanced scatterometer (ASCAT) to calculate the error statistics including mean bias, root mean square error (RMSE), and standard deviation. In addition, the rain effects on the retrieval winds were investigated using collocated Climate Prediction Center morphing method (CMORPH) precipitation data. All data were collocated with the HY-2A scatterometer wind data for comparison. The quality performances of the HY-2A NRT wind vectors data (especially the wind speeds) were satisfactory throughout the service period. The RMSEs of the HY-2A wind speeds relative to the NDBC, TAO, ERA-Interim, and ASCAT data were 1.94, 1.73, 2.25, and 1.62 m\u00b7s\u22121, respectively. The corresponding RMSEs of the wind direction were 46.63\u00b0, 43.11\u00b0, 39.93\u00b0, and 47.47\u00b0, respectively. The HY-2A scatterometer overestimated low wind speeds, especially under rainy conditions. Rain exerted a diminishing effect on the wind speed retrievals with increasing wind speed, but its effect on wind direction was robust at low and moderate wind speeds. Relative to the TAO buoy data, the RMSEs without rain effect were reduced to 1.2 m\u00b7s\u22121 and 39.68\u00b0 for the wind speed direction, respectively, regardless of wind speed. By investigating the objective laws between rain and the retrieval winds from HY-2A, we could improve the quality of wind retrievals through future studies.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs8050390","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,5,9]],"date-time":"2016-05-09T10:05:24Z","timestamp":1462788324000},"page":"390","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":16,"title":["Evaluation of HY-2A Scatterometer Wind Vectors Using Data from Buoys, ERA-Interim and ASCAT during 2012\u20132014"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"8","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0299-7962","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jianyong","family":"Xing","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China"},{"name":"University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Research on Marine Hazards Forecasting, National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center, SOA, Beijing 100081, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6163-2912","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jiancheng","family":"Shi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China"},{"name":"Joint Center for Global Change Studies (JCGCS), Beijing 100875, China"}]},{"given":"Yonghui","family":"Lei","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China"},{"name":"Joint Center for Global Change Studies (JCGCS), Beijing 100875, China"}]},{"given":"Xiang-Yu","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre for Climate Research Singapore, Meteorological Service Singapore, Singapore 537054, Singapore"}]},{"given":"Zhiquan","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO 80301, USA"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2016,5,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"121","DOI":"10.1023\/A:1015832919110","article-title":"Progress in Scatterometer Application","volume":"58","author":"Liu","year":"2002","journal-title":"J. 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