C- And Ku-band ocean backscatter measurements under extreme wind conditions

Daniel Esteban Fernandez; Elizabeth Kerr; Stephen Frasier; James Carswell; Paul Chang; Zorana Jelenak; Laurence Connor; Peter Black; Frank Marks; Alex Zhang

C- And Ku-band ocean backscatter measurements under extreme wind conditions

Daniel Esteban Fernandez
, Elizabeth Kerr
, Stephen Frasier
, James Carswell
, Paul Chang
, Zorana Jelenak
, Laurence Connor
, Peter Black
, Frank Marks
, Alex Zhang

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Abstract

During the 2002 and 2003 ONR CBLAST Hurricane Program Field (HPF) and the NOAA/NESDIS Hurricane Ocean Winds and Rain Experiment, the University of Massachusetts (UMass) installed IWRAP, a conically scanning dual-band (C- and Ku-band), dual-polarized pencil-beam airborne Doppler radar that profiles the volume backscatter and Doppler velocity from rain and the backscatter from the ocean surface simultaneously at four incidence angles covering incidence angles from 25 to 55 degrees. From the measurements acquired during missions flown through hurricanes Gustav, Isadore, and Lili (2002) and Fabian and Isabel (2003), high wind regime Geophysical Model Functions have been derived at both frequencies and polarizations. Concrete saturation effects in the NRCS are presented, and sensitivity in the wind direction at high wind speed is discussed through the analysis of the second harmonic of the NRCS.

Original language	English
Pages	32-35
Number of pages	4
State	Published - 2004
Event	2004 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings: Science for Society: Exploring and Managing a Changing Planet. IGARSS 2004 - Anchorage, AK, United States Duration: Sep 20 2004 → Sep 24 2004

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Conference	2004 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings: Science for Society: Exploring and Managing a Changing Planet. IGARSS 2004
Country/Territory	United States
City	Anchorage, AK
Period	09/20/04 → 09/24/04

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Fernandez, D. E., Kerr, E., Frasier, S., Carswell, J., Chang, P., Jelenak, Z., Connor, L., Black, P., Marks, F., & Zhang, A. (2004). C- And Ku-band ocean backscatter measurements under extreme wind conditions. 32-35. Paper presented at 2004 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings: Science for Society: Exploring and Managing a Changing Planet. IGARSS 2004, Anchorage, AK, United States.

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C- And Ku-band ocean backscatter measurements under extreme wind conditions. / Fernandez, Daniel Esteban; Kerr, Elizabeth; Frasier, Stephen et al.
2004. 32-35 Paper presented at 2004 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings: Science for Society: Exploring and Managing a Changing Planet. IGARSS 2004, Anchorage, AK, United States.

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