A numerical study of the modulation of short sea waves by longer waves

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2880-2889

  Pan, Guangdong ^a   Johnson, Joel T ^a  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydrodynamics; Modulation transfer function

Indexed keywords

DATA ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; DIRECT EVALUATIONS; EMPIRICAL MODEL; HYDRODYNAMIC EFFECT; HYDRODYNAMIC MODULATION; MONTE- CARLO SIMULATIONS; NON-LINEAR HYDRODYNAMICS; RADAR RANGE RESOLUTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISPERSIONS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; WATER WAVES;

MODULATION;

EID: 34247540553     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.877756     Document Type: Article

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