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Modulation of short-wave wind wave components: Doppler measurements

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Data obtained, in the course of making wind wave measurements from on board ship are discussed. Phase measurements and the digitization, of a signal enable one to single out Bragg's resonance structure of the Doppler spectrum and to acquire a number of spatio-temporal characteristics of waves within a broad range of wavelengths. The possibility of reconstructing a unidimensional profile of the sea surface and estimating the inhomogenecity of short-wave sea surface roughness components is illustrated.

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Traslated by Vladimir A. Puchkin.

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Slavutsky, L.A. Modulation of short-wave wind wave components: Doppler measurements. Phys. Oceanogr. 9, 363–371 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02522732

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