Field optical—microwave remote sensing of the air—sea transition zone in the atmosphere—ocean system

Abstract

A topical problem encountered when developing air-space oceanography nowadays is the study of the interactive mechanisms between electromagnetic radiation and a rough sea surface. In spite of the fact that investigations over the last 25–30 years have demonstrated, in general, the validity of the two-scale radiophysical scattering model for signals with vertical polarization (in transmission-reception mode) (Moor and Fung, 1979; Alpers and Hasselmann, 1982), the results of many works indicate the urgency of organizing special experiments with the purpose of revealing the physical features of scattering signals with horizontal polarization.