FAIRS Experiment: Fluxes, Air-Sea Interaction, and Remote Sensing

Abstract

The goal is to determine the influence of microscale wave breaking on large-incidence angle radar backscatter and air-sea fluxes of heat, gas, and momentum.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2001
Accession Number
ADA624665

Entities

People

  • Andrew T. Jessup

Organizations

  • University of Washington

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Temperature
  • Backscattering
  • Carbon Dioxide Lasers
  • Detection
  • Gases
  • Heat Energy
  • Heat Flux
  • Heat Transfer
  • Imaging Techniques
  • Marine Meteorology
  • Measurement
  • Microbalances
  • Momentum
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Remote Sensing
  • Turbulence
  • Turbulent Mixing

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Radar Systems Engineering.