Radar backscatter from breaking waves in Gulf Stream current convergence fronts

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1951-1966

  Chubb, Scott R ^a   Cooper, Arnold L ^a   Jansen, Robert W ^a   Fusina, Robert A ^a   Lee Jong Sen, ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEAN CURRENTS; PROBABILITY; RADAR IMAGING; WATER WAVES; WIND EFFECTS;

CRITICAL CREST ACCELERATION; RADAR BACKSCATTERING; WAVE BREAKING EFFECTS; WAVE-CURRENT INTERACTION;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0032639408     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.774707     Document Type: Article

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