Airborne scatterometers: investigating ocean backscatter under low- and high-wind conditions. Abstract: Attempting to understand and predict weather on a ...

One key parameter in understanding the weather is the ocean surface wind vector because of its role in the energy exchange at the air-sea interface.

band ocean backscatter measurements under low-wind conditions”, J. Geophys. Res., vol. 104, 20,678-20,701,. 1999. where x=(θ-30)/15. The cn coefficients are ...

The data also suggest that the upwind and downwind asymmetry of Ku-band backscatter decreases with increasing wind speed and can fall below 0 dB at small ...

Airborne Scatterometers: Investigating. Ocean Backscatter Under Low- and. High-Wind Conditions. JAMES R. CARSWELL, STEVEN C. CARSON, ROBERT E. MCINTOSH, FELLOW ...

2015/02/05 · ... Airborne scatterometry has demonstrated its ability to measure the water backscatter and, consequently, to recover the wind vector over the ...

Ocean backscatter measurements differ significantly, for low-wind cases, from the predicted responses of the CMOD4 and SASS-II model functions, ...

AIRBORNE SCATTEROMETERS - INVESTIGATING OCEAN BACKSCATTER UNDER LOW-WIND AND HIGH-WIND CONDITIONS · CARSWELL, JR. ;. CARSON, SC. ;. MCINTOSH, RE. ;. LI, FK. ;.

The reduction of the radar backscatter in the presence of quasibiogenic and anthropogenic sea surface films, particularly, at different wind speeds.

As a result of the study, we found that a semicircular sampling scheme is well suited for wind retrieval over the sea using a rotating-beam scatterometer. We ...