Mapping surface currents and waves with interferometric synthetic aperture radar in coastal waters: Observations of wave breaking in swell-dominant conditions

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 563-582

  Hwang, Paul A ^a   Toporkov, Jakov V ^a   Sletten, Mark A ^a   Menk, Steven P ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENCE PARAMETERS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIFFERENT LENGTH SCALE; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; SPACEBORNE INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; STEEPNESS PARAMETER; VERY HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS;

GEODETIC SATELLITES; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADAR IMAGING; SIGNAL DETECTION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE WAVES;

WATER WAVES;

COASTAL CURRENT; COASTAL WATER; INTERFEROMETRY; MAPPING; OCEAN WAVE; RIP CURRENT; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TURBULENCE; WAVE BREAKING;

EID: 84878941440     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-12-0128.1     Document Type: Article

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