Li, Xiaofeng <br/><br/>
Sea Surface Roughness Observed by High Resolution Radar 

 -  MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute  2019 
 - 1 electronic resource (202 p.) 
<br/><br/> Open Access 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Creative Commons 
<br/><br/><br/>English 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>books978-3-03921-747-2 9783039217472 9783039217465 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.3390/books978-3-03921-747-2  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>dispersion curve filtering n/a Synthetic Aperture Radar RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM) marine X-band radar compact polarization (CP) cross-polarization proper orthogonal decomposition rain right circular horizontal polarization model support vector machines Sentinel-1 wind speed wave height hurricane ocean surface waves SMAP Copernicus synthetic aperture radar co-polarized phase difference synthetic aperture radar (SAR) oceans fetch- and duration-limited wave growth relationships Wake detection air-sea interaction phase-resolved wave fields wind SAR CoVe-Pol and CoHo-Pol models Baltic Sea wind retrieval ocean surface wind speed retrieval CMEMS detectability model right circular vertical polarization model hurricane internal dynamical process ocean winds polarimetry sea surface roughness eyewall replacement cycles GF-3 dual-polarization quad-polarized SAR typhoon/hurricane-generated wind waves coast and ocean observation radar geophysical model function (GMF) Doppler radar