Electromagnetic Waves Propagation Above Rough Sea Surface Application to Evaporation Ducts

Author

Benhmammouch, Othmane ; Khenchaf, Ali ; Caouren, Natacha

Author_Institution

Lab. E3I2, ENSIETA, Brest

Volume

4

fYear

2008

fDate

7-11 July 2008

Abstract

In this paper, effects of rough sea surface in electromagnetic waves propagation in presence of evaporation ducts are introduced. The Split Step Fourier method is used to solve the parabolic wave equation. A simple method is introduced for a better taking into account the roughness of the sea surface. The numerical results of our proposed method are compared to those obtained with the use of Ament roughness parameter.

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; electromagnetic wave propagation; oceanographic techniques; remote sensing; Ament roughness parameter; Fresnel reflection; Monte-Carlo simulation; Split Step Fourier method; electromagnetic wave propagation; evaporation duct; model tropospheric wave propagation; parabolic wave equation; rough sea surface; sea surface geometry; sea water evaporation; Atmospheric modeling; Ducts; Electromagnetic modeling; Electromagnetic propagation; Optical surface waves; Rough surfaces; Sea surface; Surface roughness; Surface waves; Terrestrial atmosphere; Split Step Fourier; Tropospheric propagation; evaporation duct; parabolic equation; rough sea spectrum; sea surface;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2008. IGARSS 2008. IEEE International

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2807-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2808-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4779941

Filename

4779941