Whitecaps formed by breaking waves and air entrainment are readily visible on the ocean surface, with their high albedo significantly impacting the accuracy of remote sensing retrievals. While most traditional whitecap parameterizations rely only on...
The whitecap coverage at the sea surface is affected by the ratio of kinetic energy to potential energy, θ, the wave spectrum width parameter, ρ, and other factors. This paper validates an improved statistical theory for surface whitecap co...
Oceanic whitecaps are caused by wave breaking and are very important in air–sea interactions. Usually, whitecap coverage is considered a key factor in representing the role of whitecaps. However, the accurate identification of whitecap coverage...
The results of field observations of breaking of surface spectral peak waves, taken from an oceanographic research platform, are presented. Whitecaps generated by breaking surface waves were detected using video recordings of the sea surface, accompa...
This paper reports the results of field measurements of wave breaking modulations by dominant surface waves, taken from the Black Sea research platform at wind speeds ranging from 10 to 20 m/s. Wave breaking events were detected by video recordings o...
Ocean surface whitecaps manifest surface wave breaking. Most of the whitecap data reported in the literature are based on optical observations through photographic or video recording. The air in whitecaps modifies the dielectric properties of microwa...
The study focuses on the detection of breaking wave crests in the highly dynamic waters of an Antarctic coastal polynya using high-resolution panchromatic satellite imagery. Accurate assessment of whitecap coverage is crucial for improving our unders...
The presence of foam influences the accuracy of satellite-derived water-leaving radiance. A model has been developed to estimate the augmented reflectance ratio (A(λ,U)) due to differences in the fraction of whitecap coverage (w) on the ocean surface...
With the increase of sea surface wind speed, whitecaps will appear on the sea surface. Generally, for Electromagnetic (EM) scattering of the foam-covered sea surface, medium-scale waves are used to replace the breaking waves of the real sea surface....
The study of upper ocean mixing processes, including their dynamics and thermodynamics, has been a primary focus for oceanographers and meteorologists. Wave breaking in deep water is believed to play a significant role in these processes, affecting a...
The main purpose of our work is to investigate the performance of wave breaking and its effect on wave retrieval in data acquired from the Chinese Gaofen-3 (GF-3) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) at C-band and the German TerraSAR-X (TS-X) at X-band. Th...