HF radar wave and wind measurement over the Eastern China Sea

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1950-1955

  Huang, Weimin ^a   Wu, Shicai ^b   Gill, Eric ^a   Wen, Biyang ^b   Hou, Jiechang ^b  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

HF radar; Ocean wave spectrum; Remote sensing; Waveheight; Wind field

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANTENNA ARRAYS; BANDWIDTH; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; INVERSE PROBLEMS; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADAR SYSTEMS; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WIND;

EASTERN CHINA SEA; GROUND WAVE RADAR; HIGH FREQUENCY RADAR; OCEAN WAVE SPECTRUM; WIND FIELD;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0036762746     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.803718     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. D. E. Barrick, "First-order theory and analysis of MF/HF/VHF scatter from the sea," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., AP-20, pp. 2-10, 1972.
2. D. Barrick, "Remote sensing of sea state by radar," in Remote Sensing of the Troposphere, V.E. Derr, Ed. Washington, DC: U.S. Govt. Printing Office, 1972, ch. 12, pp. 1-46.
3. K. J. Hickey, E. W. Gill, J. A. Helbig, and J. Walsh, "Measurement of ocean surface currents using a long-range, high-frequency ground wave radar," IEEE J. Oceanic Eng., vol. 19, pp. 549-554, Oct. 1994.
4. H. C. Graber, B. K. Haus, L. K. Shay, and R. D. Chapman, "HF radar comparison with moored estimates of current speed and direction: Expected differences and implications," J. Geophys. Res., vol. 12, pp. 18749-18766, 1997.
5. E. W. Gill, M. L. Khandekar, R. K. Howell, and J. Walsh, "Ocean surface wave measurement using a steerable high frequency narrow beam ground wave radar," J. Atmos. Ocean. Technol., vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 703-713, 1996.
6. S. F. Heron and M. L. Heron, "A comparison of algorithms for extracting significant wave height form HF radar ocean backscatter spectra," J. Atmos. Ocean. Technol., vol. 18, pp. 1157-1163, 1998.
7. A. E. Long and D. B. Trizna, "Mapping of north atlantic winds by HF radar sea backscatter interpretation," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., vol. AP-21, pp. 680-685, 1973.
8. R. H. Stewart and J. R. Barnum, "Radio measurements of oceanic winds at long ranges: An evaluation," Radio Sci., vol. 10, no. 10, pp. 853-857, 1975.
9. D. E. Barrick, "Extraction of wave parameters from measured HF radar sea-echo doppler spectra," Radio Sci., vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 415-424, 1977.
10. B. Lipa, "Derivation of directional ocean-wave spectra by integral inversion of second-order radar echoes," Radio Sci., vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 425-434, 1977.
11. L. Wyatt, "A relaxation method for integral inversion applied to HF radar measurements of ocean wave directional spectrum," Int. J. Remote Sens., vol. 11, no. 8, pp. 1481-1494, 1990.
12. R. Howell and J. Walsh, "Measurement of ocean wave spectra using narrow beam HF radar," IEEE J. Oceanic Eng., vol. 18, pp. 296-305, July 1993.
13. P. E. Dexter and S. Theodorides, "Surface wind speed extraction from HF sky-wave radar Doppler spectra," Radio Sci., vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 643-652, 1982.
14. W. Huang, "Research on ocean surface wind field and wave parameters with HF ground wave radar," Ph.D. dissertation, Wuhan Univ., Wuhan, China, 2001.
15. W. J. Pierson and L. Moskowitz, "A proposed spectral form for fully developed seas based upon the similarity theory of S.A. Kitaigorodskii," J. Geophys. Res., vol. 69, no. 24, pp. 5181-5190, 1964.
16. S. F. Heron and R. J. Rose, "On the application of HF ocean radar to the observation of temporal and spatial changes in wind direction," IEEE J. Oceanic Eng., vol. 11, pp. 210-218, Apr. 1986.