Ultrawideband, polarimetric radar studies of breaking waves at low grazing angles

Radio Science

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 181-192

  Sletten, Mark A ^a   Wu, Jin ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAKWATERS; DATA REDUCTION; DOPPLER EFFECT; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RADAR SYSTEMS; POLARIMETERS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

BENCH TOP MODEL; BREAKER CREST; BREAKING WATER WAVES; CHIRPED WAVE PACKETS; DOPPLER MEASUREMENT; GRAZING ANGLE; POLARIMETRIC RADAR STUDIES; SCATTEROR; SEA SPIKES;

WATER WAVES;

LABORATORY INVESTIGATIONS; LOW GRAZING ANGLES; NONLINEAR STRUCTURE; POLARIMETRIC RADARS; POLARIMETRIC SCATTERING; SCATTERING MECHANISMS; SHORT TIME INTERVALS; ULTRA WIDEBAND RADARS;

EID: 0029734515     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95RS01762     Document Type: Article

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