Title
First results of the VIERS-1 experiment
Author
van Halsema, D.
Jaehne, B.
Oost, W.A.
Calkoen, C.J.
Snoeij, P.
Fysisch en Elektronisch Laboratorium TNO
Contributor
Komen, G.J. (editor)
Oost, W.A. (editor)
Publication year
1989
Abstract
In February 1988, cornbined measurements of microwave backscatler, wind, waves and gas exchange have been carried out in the large Delft lHydraulics wind/rwave tank. This experiment was the first in a series of experimeuts in the frame of the VIERS-1 project. In this project a number of Dutch and German laborabories cooperate. Main objective is to come to a physical descriplion of the processes involved in wind scatterometry and, from that point, to an improvement of the algorithms used for determination of wind speed and direction from satellite borne microwave scatterometers. A second objective is to study the relation between the gas exchange at the water surface and the microwave backscatter. To achieve these objectives two wind/wave tank experiments and one ocean based platform experiment are scheduled. In this paper, the VIERS-1 programme will be outlined. The Delft wind/wave tank experiment will be described and some first results of a preliminary comparison of backscatter and wave slope measurements will be shown.
Subject
Radar
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TNO identifier
94194
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht
Source
Radar Scattering from Modulated Wind Waves - Proceedings of the Workshop on Modulation of Short Wind Waves in the Gravity-Capillary Range by Non-Uniform Currents, held in Bergen aan Zee, The Netherlands, 24-26 May 1988, 49-57
Document type
conference paper