Microwave Measurements of Winds, Waves, and Currents in the Global and Coastal Ocean.

摘要

LONG-TERM GOAL. The long-term goals of this project are to develop and test methods for extracting geophysical information about the coastal and global oceans from active microwave instruments. We ultimately envision the coastal measurements to be made from remotely piloted aircraft and the global measurements to be made from satellites. SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVES. The scientific objectives of this research are to understand the interaction of microwave radiation with the ocean surface at a variety of incidence angles and to apply this understanding to extract information about the air/sea interface.