Azimuthal dependence of the microwave emission from foam generated by breaking waves at 18.7 and 37 GHz

2006 IEEE MicroRad Proceedings - 9th Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing Applications, MicroRad'06

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 131-136

  Padmanabhan, S ^a   Reising, S C ^a   Asher, W E ^b   Rose, L A ^c   Gaiser, P W ^c   Bobak, J P ^c   Dowgiallo, D J ^c   Anguelova, M ^c  

^a Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONICAL MICROWAVE IMAGER SOUNDERS (CMIS); MICROWAVE EMISSION; SURFACE EMISSIVITY; SURFACE WIND VECTORS;

FOAMS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WAVES; WIND;

MICROWAVES;

EID: 34250767105     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MICRAD.2006.1677076     Document Type: Conference Paper

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