Open ocean radar sea scatter measurements
Abstract
Measurements are reported of shipboard X-band radar sea scatter for a variety of wind speeds, collected over 360 degrees in azimuth using horizontal polarization. The data were sorted by azimuth and statistics are reported for the upwind aspect. These are fit well by a double Weibull distribution, similar to that reported by Hansen and Cavaleri. The scattering mechanisms responsible for this double distribution are suggested to be Bragg scatter and sea spikes. Results of correlating the parameters of these distributions against environmental parameters which were collected aboard the research vessel are presented.
- Publication:
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International Radar Conference
- Pub Date:
- 1985
- Bibcode:
- 1985inra.conf..135T
- Keywords:
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- Radar Cross Sections;
- Radar Measurement;
- Radar Scattering;
- Sea Roughness;
- Wave Scattering;
- Wind Velocity;
- Bragg Angle;
- Noaa Satellites;
- Satellite-Borne Instruments;
- Weibull Density Functions;
- Communications and Radar