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Effect of Long Surface Waves on the Bragg Scattering of Microwave

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The features of the Bragg backscattering of radio waves by sea surface caused by the presence of long surface waves are considered. Short surface waves always propagate along curvilinear surfaces created by longer waves. Analysis of the effects produced by long waves is based on direct in situ measurements of sea surface slopes made with a laser slopemeter. Situations where probing is performed in centimetre and millimetre ranges are considered. Quantitative estimates of backscatter cross-section variation for probing on horizontal and vertical polarization are obtained. Differences in statistical distributions of sea surface slopes from Gaussian distributions are taken into account in the analysis.

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  1. Marine Hydrophysical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Sevastopol, Russia

    Alexander Zapevalov

  2. Faculty of Physics, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

    Konstantin Pokazeev

  3. Institute for Problems in Mechanics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    Tatiana Chaplina

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Zapevalov, A., Pokazeev, K., Chaplina, T. (2021). Effect of Long Surface Waves on the Bragg Scattering of Microwave. In: Simulation of the Sea Surface for Remote Sensing. Springer Oceanography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58752-9_5

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