Microwave backscatter from mesoscale breaking waves on the sea surface

Waves Random Media

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-15

  Churyumov, A N ^a   Kravtsov, Yu A ^a  

^a Russian Academy of Science ^*  (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER EFFECT; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; MICROWAVES; RADAR CROSS SECTION;

BREAKING WAVES; BREWSTER ANGLE; LOW GRAZING ANGLE (LGA);

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING;

EID: 0033906489     PISSN: 09597174     EISSN: 13616676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0959-7174/10/1/301     Document Type: Article

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