Observation of hurricane-generated ocean swell refraction at the Gulf Stream north wall with the RADARSAT-1 synthetic aperture radar

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 2131-2142

  Li, Xiaofeng ^a   Pichel, William G ^a   He, Mingxia ^b   Wu, Sunny Y ^c   Friedman, Karen S ^a   Clemente Colón, Pablo ^a   Zhao, Chaofang ^b  

^a OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^b OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Gulf stream; Refraction; Surface waves; Synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

HURRICANES; RADAR IMAGING; REFRACTION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WATER WAVES;

GULF STREAM CURRENT; IMAGE SPECTRA; OCEAN SWELL REFRACTION; WAVE CURRENT INTERACTION MODEL;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0036821685     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.802474     Document Type: Article

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