Microwave emission and reflection from the wind-roughened sea surface at 6.7 and 18.6 GHz

Wind direction azimuthal signature in th

Wind direction azimuthal signature in the Stokes emission vector from the ocean surface at microwave frequencies

✍ A. J. Camps; S. C. Reising 📂 Article 📅 2001 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 412 KB

## Abstract An ocean polarimetric emission model is presented. It is found that skewness and upwind/cross‐wind rms slopes are responsible for the first and second azimuthal harmonic, respectively. Atmospheric effects contribute significantly at low wind speeds, and at horizontal polarization at cer