Macroscopic foam-spray models for ocean microwave radiometry

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 3138-3144

  Raizer, Victor ^a  

^a ZEL TECHNOLOGIES LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic modeling; Foam; Microwave emission; Ocean; Radiometer observations; Spray

Indexed keywords

AIR SEA FLUX; AIR-WATER; BASIC COMPOSITION; COMPLEX DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; COMPREHENSIVE MODEL; DISCRETE SYSTEMS; DRY FOAMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELING; ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELS; INCIDENCE ANGLES; MICROWAVE EMISSION; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; NEW RESULTS; NON-UNIFORMITIES; OCEAN; OCEAN REMOTE SENSING; POLARIZATION DEPENDENCY; SEA FOAM; SIMULATION TECHNIQUE; SPRAY; SPRAY MODEL; STRUCTURAL HIERARCHIES; THIN WATER FILMS; TWO PHASE MIXTURES; VERTICAL PROFILE; WATER DROPLETS; WET FOAMS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; ELECTROMAGNETISM; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MICROWAVES; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 56049104927     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.895981     Document Type: Conference Paper

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