Radar observations of wave transformations in the vicinity of islands

Remote sensing by ground-based HF radar and airborne synthetic aperture radar and in situ wave measurements performed on March 25, 1977 during the West Coast Experiment have made it possible to form an overall picture of the 7-sec-period wave climate over a 35,000 sq km region off the southern California coast. The picture which emerges from these measurements shows a broad deep-ocean directional distribution arriving from the west and being significantly modified as it travels coastward passing San Clemente and Santa Catalina islands.