Two-scale treatment of low-grazing-angle scattering from spilling breaker water waves

Radio Science

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 7-1-7-12

  West, James C ^a   Ja, Shiou Jyh ^a,b  

^a Oklahoma State University   (United States)

^b ICx Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

Numerical electromagnetics; Rough surface scattering; Sea surface scattering; Two scale model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER EFFECT; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MICROWAVES; OCEANOGRAPHY; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; REMOTE SENSING; WATER WAVES;

ELECTROMAGNETICS; LOW GRAZING ANGLE SCATTERING; ROUGH SURFACE SCATTERING; SEA SURFACE SCATTERING; SPILLING BREAKER WATER WAVES; TWO-SCALE MODEL;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0036663988     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001rs002517     Document Type: Article

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