Sea surface microwave scattering at extreme grazing angle: Numerical investigation of the Doppler shift

D Miret, G Soriano, F Nouguier, P Forget… - … on Geoscience and …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2014ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a numerical investigation of horizontally polarized microwave scattering from 1-
D sea surfaces at extreme grazing angles. Rigorous electromagnetic calculations are
performed with a specific integral formalism dedicated to grazing angles. Sample sea
surfaces are simulated using a classical Pierson-Moskowitz elevation spectrum together
with weakly nonlinear hydrodynamic models, namely, the Creamer solution, the “choppy
wave model,” and a recent improved version thereof. For this, the electromagnetic integral …
We present a numerical investigation of horizontally polarized microwave scattering from 1-D sea surfaces at extreme grazing angles. Rigorous electromagnetic calculations are performed with a specific integral formalism dedicated to grazing angles. Sample sea surfaces are simulated using a classical Pierson-Moskowitz elevation spectrum together with weakly nonlinear hydrodynamic models, namely, the Creamer solution, the “choppy wave model,” and a recent improved version thereof. For this, the electromagnetic integral formalism is extended to surfaces with irregular sampling. For the different nonlinear surface models and assuming no large-scale current, we evidence a dramatic increase, followed by a saturation of the mean Doppler shift in the last few grazing degrees, with a limiting value depending quasi-linearly on the significant wave height. Our numerical investigations confirm that breaking events are not necessary to produce fast scatterers but tend to show that they are necessary to reproduce the elevated level of backscattered power. The results of this study also support the hypothesis that the blow-up of the mean Doppler shift at grazing angle is associated to an electromagnetic sharp edge effect on the large surface crests rather than geometrical shadowing of the troughs.
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