Hydrodynamic effects in low-grazing angle backscattering from the ocean

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 354-363

  Caponi, Enrique A ^a   Lake, Bruce M ^a   Yuen, Henry C ^a  

^a NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER EFFECT; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR; SURFACE WATERS; SURFACE WAVES; WATER WAVES; WIND EFFECTS;

HYDRODYNAMIC EFFECTS; LOW GRAZING ANGLE BACKSCATTERING; OCEAN; WAVEBREAKING;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING;

EID: 0032663659     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.761076     Document Type: Article

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