Wind-speed inversion from HF radar first-order backscatter signal

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 105-121

  Shen, Wei ^a   Gurgel, Klaus Werner ^a   Voulgaris, George ^b   Schlick, Thomas ^a   Stammer, Detlef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coastal wind speed; HF radar; Neural network; Wave generation

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTER SIGNALS; BRAGG FREQUENCY; BRAGG WAVES; COASTAL WINDS; DIRECTIONAL SPREADING; DOPPLER SPECTRA; FIRST-ORDER; FIRST-ORDER PEAKS; HF RADARS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; IN-SITU DATA; LOW SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; LOWER LIMITS; MINIMUM VALUE; OCEAN SURFACE CURRENTS; OCEAN SURFACES; OCEAN WAVE SPECTRA; OPERATIONAL SYSTEMS; RADAR COVERAGE; RADAR FREQUENCIES; RADAR SITES; RADIO BEAM; SECOND ORDERS; SHORT DISTANCES; SINGLE LOCATION; THIRD GENERATION; UPPER LIMITS; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE GENERATION; WIND DIRECTIONS; WIND GENERATED WAVES; WIND SPEED;

BACKSCATTERING; ESTIMATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; OCEANOGRAPHY; WATER WAVES; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION; WIND EFFECTS;

RADAR;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BACKSCATTER; DOPPLER RADAR; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SIGNAL; WAVE GENERATION; WAVE SPECTRUM; WIND VELOCITY;

LIGURIAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NORWAY;

EID: 84861099205     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-011-0465-9     Document Type: Article

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