The SCR was asked to participate in the Frontal Air-Sea Interaction Experiment (FASINEX) to provide directional wave spectra. The NASA P-3 carrying the SCR, the Radar Ocean Wave Spectrometer, and the Airborne Oceanographic Lidar was one of five aircrafts and two ocean research ships participating in this coordinated study of the air sea interaction in the vicinity of a sea surface temperature front near 28 deg N, 70 deg W. Analysis of data from the February 1986 experiment is still ongoing, but results already submitted for publication strengthen the hypothesis that off-nadir radar backscatter is closely correlated to wind stress. The SCR provided valuable information on the directional wave spectrum and its spatial variation.


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    Title :

    Surface Contour Radar (SCR) Contributions to FASINEX. Abstract Only


    Contributors:
    E. J. Walsh (author)

    Publication date :

    1988


    Size :

    3 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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