Effect of rainfall on sea-surface microwave thermal emission

Author: M.G. Bulatov   Y.A. Kravtsov   V.G. Pungin   E.I. Skvortsov  

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

ISSN: 0959-7174

Source: Waves in Random Media, Vol.8, Iss.1, 1998-01, pp. : 103-109

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Abstract

The results of radiometric experiments on the effect of rainfall on sea-surface microwave thermal emission are considered. The sea surface is described as a multitude of independent ring waves, perturbed by rain, and characterized by a power spectrum determined by rain parameters. This description allows us to explain the increase of the brightness temperature of a perturbed sea surface as the result of the resonance phenomenon in thermal emission.