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Angular dependence of centimeter-band radar scattering by sea surface

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Dependences of radar-scattering intensity on local slope of wind waves on the sea surface are obtained under real-sea conditions at a frequency of 20 GHz. To calculate the dependences, we use the fine structure of Doppler spectrum of backscattering. The results are qualitatively compatible with model calculations within the framework of the theory of perturbations on a two-scale surface and allow us to estimate the inhomogeneity of short gravity waves and gravity-capillary ripple, which are modulated by large-scale waves.

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  1. Far-East Department, Pasific Institute for Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok

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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 39, No. 5, pp. 538–546, May, 1996.

The author thanks V. G. Makarov and A. Yu. Gurulev of the laboratory of geophysical hydrodynamics at the Pacific Institute for Oceanology for assistance in numerical processing of the data.

This work was supported by the Russian Foundation for Fundamental Research (grant No 94-05016630).

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Slavutskii, L.A. Angular dependence of centimeter-band radar scattering by sea surface. Radiophys Quantum Electron 39, 360–364 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02124688

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