The Southern Ocean Waves Experiment. Part III: Sea surface slope statistics and near-Nadir remote sensing

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 670-685

  Walsh, Edward J ^a,b   Banner, M L ^c   Wright, C W ^a   Vandemark, D C ^d   Chapron, B ^e   Jensen, J ^f   Lee, S ^g  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^e IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES   (France)

^f NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^g CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REMOTE SENSING; STATISTICS; TOPOGRAPHY; WATER WAVES; WIND EFFECTS;

DIRECTIONAL WAVE SPECTRUM; INCIDENCE ANGLE; MEAN SQUARE SLOPE; SEA SURFACE SLOPE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BACKSCATTER; NADIR; NSCAT; OCEAN WAVE; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SEA SURFACE; SEA SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; WAVE HEIGHT;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; TASMANIA;

EID: 43149095599     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JPO3771.1     Document Type: Article

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