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Sea Surface Roughness Observed by High Resolution Radar

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October 2019
202 pages
  • ISBN978-3-03921-746-5 (Paperback)
  • ISBN978-3-03921-747-2 (PDF)
https://doi.org/10.3390/books978-3-03921-747-2
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This book is a reprint of the Special Issue Sea Surface Roughness Observed by High Resolution Radar that was published in

Engineering
Environmental & Earth Sciences
Summary

Changes in sea surface roughness are usually associated with a change in the sea surface wind field. This interaction has been exploited to measure sea surface wind speed by scatterometry. A number of features on the sea surface associated with changes in roughness can be observed by synthetic aperture radar (SAR) because of the change in Bragg backscatter of the radar signal by damping of the resonant ocean capillary waves. With various radar frequencies, resolutions, and modes of polarization, sea surface features have been analyzed in numerous campaigns, bringing various datasets together, thus allowing for new insights into small-scale processes at a larger areal coverage. This Special Issue aims at investigating sea surface features detected by high spatial resolution radar systems, such as SAR.

Format
  • Paperback
License
© 2019 by the authors; CC BY-NC-ND license
Keywords
SAR; Sentinel-1; wave height; wind speed; Copernicus; CMEMS; Baltic Sea; hurricane internal dynamical process; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); eyewall replacement cycles; ocean winds; ocean surface wind speed retrieval; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); quad-polarized SAR; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); typhoon/hurricane-generated wind waves; fetch- and duration-limited wave growth relationships; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); hurricane; rain; wind; dual-polarization; synthetic aperture radar; GF-3; coast and ocean observation; sea surface roughness; compact polarization (CP); RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM); geophysical model function (GMF); wind retrieval; CoVe-Pol and CoHo-Pol models; right circular horizontal polarization model; right circular vertical polarization model; oceans; Synthetic Aperture Radar; polarimetry; co-polarized phase difference; Doppler radar; radar; sea surface roughness; air-sea interaction; proper orthogonal decomposition; ocean surface waves; dispersion curve filtering; marine X-band radar; phase-resolved wave fields; Sentinel-1; cross-polarization; wind retrieval; SMAP; Wake detection; Synthetic Aperture Radar; support vector machines; detectability model; n/a