Radar scattering of the ocean surface and sea-roughness properties: A combined analysis from dual-polarizations airborne radar observations and models in C band

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 111, Issue 9, 2006, Pages

  Mouche, Alexis A ^a,b   Hauser, Danièle ^b   Kudryavtsev, Vladimir ^c  

^a IFREMER   (France)

^b SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

^c NIERSC   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADAR;

AIRBORNE SENSING; BACKSCATTER; RADAR; SEA SURFACE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WAVE BREAKING; WAVE SPECTRUM;

EID: 34347224801     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JC003166     Document Type: Article

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