Study of a Microwave Radar Signal Backscattered at Small Incidence Angles: In-Situ Measurements

We present the results of data processing of the field experiment devoted to a study of a microwave signal backscattered by a rough water surface and compare them with the theoretical estimates. The measurements were conducted sequentially using a radar with parabolic and knife-beam antennas. The radar was mounted on the Molitovsky bridge at a height of 40 m across the Oka river in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. For the radar with knife-shaped antenna pattern, we examined the reflected-signal power and the shift and width of the Doppler spectrum as functions of the azimuthal angle for the nadir sounding. For the parabolic antenna, we studied the reflected-signal power as a function of the incidence angle. Comparison with the experimental data shows that the developed theoretical model of a Doppler spectrum is in good agreement with the observations. __________ Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 48, No. 8, pp. 661–673, August 2005.     

Functional analysis proofs of Abel's theorems

We give alternative proofs to the classical theorems of Abel, using the concept of Berezin symbol.

     

Spectral characteristics of a microwave radar signal backscattered by the sea surface at small incidence angles

We present a theoretical analysis of the Doppler-spectrum properties of a microwave radar signal scattered by the sea surface at small incidence angles. The dependences of Doppler-spectrum width and shift on the wind velocity and wave development stage and their azimuthal dependence are analyzed. The case of mixed sea (wind wave plus swell) is also considered. The JONSWAP spectrum model is used to describe sea waves. The study shows that Doppler-spectrum parameters are sensitive to variation of sea-surface state; for example, for the case of developed sea waves, an increase in wind velocity by 1 m/sec leads to increases in the Doppler-spectrum width and shift by 15 Hz and 3 Hz, respectively. It is shown that for the case of a moving radar the Doppler spectrum remains sensitive to variation of sea- surface state with a sufficiently narrow radar directivity pattern. Estimates show that in the case of a single sea- wave system on the surface, using Doppler-spectrum parameters we can, in principle, determine wave type (developing wind wave, developed wind wave, or swell), dominant wavelength, wave propagation direction, and wave height; wind velocity, direction, and acceleration distance can be determined for wind waves.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 39, No. 5, pp. 517–526, May, 1996.This paper was supported by the Russian Foundation for Fundamental Research (project 93-02-15892).     

Spectral multiplicity of certain contractions

One computes the spectral multiplicity of the direct sum of operators of the following form: a unitary operator U=U_aU_s, a contraction T of class C₀, a one-sided shift S, and its conjugate S*. Theorem: where _mo=1 if m=0 and _mo=0 it m>0.Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov Leningradskogo Otdeleniya Matematicheskogo Instituta im. V. A. Steklova AN SSSR, Vol. 157, pp. 23–29, 1987.     

Berezin Symbols and Schatten--von Neumann Classes

In terms of Berezin symbols, we give several criteria for operators to belong to the Schatten--von Neumann classes . In particular, for functions of model operators, we give a complete answer to a question posed by Nordgren and Rosenthal.     

Use of the convolution in proving unicellularity

The compactness of certain special convolution operators is used to prove the unicellularity of weighted shift operators and to describe cyclic vectors of the integration operator.Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov Leningradskogo Otdeleniya Matematicheskogo Instituta im. V. A. Steklova AN SSSR, Vol. 135, pp. 66–68, 1984.     

Crystal and molecular structures of 4-hydroxy-5-nitrophenyl cyclohexyl ketone

Technical Physics Institute, Tadzhik Academy of Sciences. Translated from Zhurnal Strukturnoi Khimii, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 195–198, January–February, 1990.     

C-terminal processing of yeast Spt7 occurs in the absence of functional SAGA complex

Background  

Spt7 is an integral component of the multi-subunit SAGA complex that is required for the expression of ~10% of yeast genes. Two forms of Spt7 have been identified, the second of which is truncated at its C-terminus and found in the SAGA-like (SLIK) complex.     

On the proof of Beurling's theorem on z- invariant subspaces

We give an other proof of the classical Beurling theorem on z   -invariant subspaces in the classical Hardy space H²(D)$H^2(\mathbb{D})$ over the open unit disk D$\mathbb{D}$, in which the concept of Berezin symbol is not used (see M.T. Karaev [On some problems related to Berezin symbols, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. I 340 (10) (2005) 715–718]). This improves the author's proof in Karaev (2005).