Abstract: A validation of European Space Agency (ESA) remote sensing satellite (ERS) scatterometer ocean wind measurements is performed using a formalism recently proposed for and applied to NASA scatterometer (NSCAT) and Special ...

Abstract: Potential effects of environmental parameters such as sea state or atmospheric boundary layer stability on the normalized radar cross section (NRCS) measured by spaceborne sensors have been investigated for a long time. ...

Abstract: One year of collocated, rain-free nadir Ku-band backscatter cross-section measurements from the Tropical Rainfall Mapping Mission (TRMM) precipitation radar (PR) and both Jason-1 and Envisat RA-2 altimeter measurements ...

Abstract: Combination of laser and radar aboard an aircraft is used to directly measure long gravity wave surface tilting simultaneously with nadir-viewing microwave backscatter from the sea surface. The presented dataset is extensive, ...

Abstract: During the Southern Ocean Waves Experiment (SOWEX), registered ocean wave topography and backscattered power data at Ka band (36 GHz) were collected with the NASA Scanning Radar Altimeter (SRA) off the coast of Tasmania ...

Abstract: Globally distributed crossovers of altimeter and scatterometer observations clearly demonstrate that ocean altimeter backscatter correlates with both the near-surface wind speed and the sea state. Satellite data from ...

Abstract: ind radii estimates in Tropical Cyclones (TC) are crucial to help determine the TC wind structure for the production of effective warnings and to constrain initial conditions for a number of applications. In that context, ...