A behaviour of sea surface brightness temperature at a change of a condition of atmospheric stratification

Author

Hambaryan, A.K. ; Arakelyan, A.K. ; Kulcar, T.

Author_Institution

ECOSERV Remote Observations Centre Co. Ltd., Yerevan, Armenia

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

953

Abstract

It is shown that, independent of the polarization of the observations, absolute values and fluctuations of the sea surface brightness temperature due to changes in the spectral characteristics of ocean short waves depend sufficiently on the difference between the sea water and air temperatures, that is on a condition of atmospheric stratification. An analysis of the obtained results has shown that under fully developed sea wave conditions and under neutral and unstable atmosphere a near surface wind speed and simultaneously a water temperature may be unambiguously determined by bi-static or dual-polarization microwave radiometer observations

Keywords

atmospheric boundary layer; atmospheric techniques; ocean waves; oceanographic techniques; radiometry; remote sensing; wind; air temperature; atmospheric stratification; bi-static observations; dual-polarization microwave radiometer observations; fully developed sea wave conditions; near surface wind speed; neutral atmosphere; ocean short waves; polarization; sea surface brightness temperature; spectral characteristics; unstable atmosphere; water temperature; Atmosphere; Atmospheric waves; Brightness temperature; Fluctuations; Ocean temperature; Polarization; Sea surface; Surface waves; Temperature dependence; Water;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1999. IGARSS '99 Proceedings. IEEE 1999 International

Conference_Location

Hamburg

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5207-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1999.774496

Filename

774496