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The relationship between the microwave radar cross section and both wind speed and stress: Model function studies using Frontal Air-Sea Interaction Experiment dataThe Frontal Air-Sea Interaction Experiment (FASINEX) provided a unique data set with coincident airborne scatterometer measurements of the ocean surface radar cross section (RCS)(at Ku band) and near-surface wind and wind stress. These data have been analyzed to study new model functions which relate wind speed and surface friction velocity (square root of the kinematic wind stress) to the radar cross section and to better understand the processes in the boundary layer that have a strong influence on the radar backscatter. Studies of data from FASINEX indicate that the RCS has a different relation to the friction velocity than to the wind speed. The difference between the RCS models using these two variables depends on the polarization and the incidence angle. The radar data have been acquired from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory airborne scatterometer. These data span 10 different flight days. Stress measurements were inferred from shipboard instruments and from aircraft flying at low altitudes, closely following the scatterometer. Wide ranges of radar incidence angles and environmental conditions needed to fully develop algorithms are available from this experiment.
Document ID
19950031118
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
External Source(s)
Authors
Weissman, David E.
(Hofstra Univ. Heampstead, NY, United States)
Davidson, Kenneth L.
(Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA United States)
Brown, Robert A.
(Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA United States)
Friehe, Carl A.
(Univ. of California, Irvine, CA United States)
Li, Fuk
(Jet Propulsion Lab. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 16, 2013
Publication Date
May 15, 1994
Publication Information
Publication: Journal of Geophysical Research
Volume: 99
Issue: C5
ISSN: 0148-0227
Subject Category
Oceanography
Accession Number
95A62717
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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