Simultaneous acoustic and microwave backscattering from the sea surface

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 5 I, 1997, Pages 2583-2595

  Dahl, Peter H ^a   Plant, William J ^a   Nützel, Bernd ^b   Schmidt, Anke ^c   Herwig, Heinz ^b   Terray, Eugene A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Forsch Anst der Bw fur W   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WIND;

AIR SEA INTERFACE; DIRICHLET BOUNDARY CONDITION; GRAZING ANGLES; MICROWAVE BACKSCATTERING; POWER LAW;

ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING;

ACOUSTICS; AIR; ARTICLE; DENSITY; MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVE RADIATION; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; VELOCITY;

EID: 0031149680     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.418500     Document Type: Article

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