Publication Date:
2011-08-23
Description:
Rain affects wind retrievals from scatterometric measurements of the sea surface. To depict the additional roughness caused by rain on a wind driven surface, we use a ring-wave spectral model. This enables us to analyse the rain effect on K(u) band scatterometric observations from two laboratory experiments. Calculations based on the small perturbation method provide good simulation of scattering measurements for the rain-only case, whereas for combined wind and rain cases, the boundary perturbation method is appropriate.
Keywords:
Meteorology and Climatology
Type:
Laboratory for Hydrospheric Processes Research Publications; 131-132
Format:
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