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Radar scattering on gravity-capillary waves: Laboratory investigation

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The mechanism of the resonance (Bragg) scattering of microwaves by gravity-capillary waves (GCWs) is checked experimentally. Resonant regularities of backscattered signal intensity are obtained as functions of frequency and GCW propagation direction. It is shown that the width of the resonance curves is determined by the width of the directivity pattern of the scatterometer’s antenna. The excitation of the GCW second harmonic and the spatial structure of the wave field at the GCW doubled frequency are investigated. The ratio of the amplitudes of the free wave and forced harmonic that originated during excitation of the primary wave is determined. The resonance curve is obtained for the second-order scattering of radio waves (on forced harmonics and free GCWs). The correction to the backscattering cross section is investigated in the second order of smallness relative to the Bragg term.

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  1. Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Ul’yanova 46, Nizhni Novgorod, 603950, Russia

    S. A. Ermakov, E. V. Makarov & I. A. Sergievskaya

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Original Russian Text © S.A. Ermakov, E.V. Makarov, I.A. Sergievskaya, 2007, published in Izvestiya AN. Fizika Atmosfery i Okeana, 2007, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 272–278.

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Ermakov, S.A., Makarov, E.V. & Sergievskaya, I.A. Radar scattering on gravity-capillary waves: Laboratory investigation. Izv. Atmos. Ocean. Phys. 43, 243–249 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001433807020119

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