Effect of rainfall on sea-surface microwave thermal emission |
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| Authors: | M G Bulatov Yu A Kravtsov V G Pungin E I Skvortsov |
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| Affiliation: | Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Science , Profsoyuznaya, 84/32, 117810, Moscow, Russia |
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| Abstract: | Abstract The results of radiometric experiments on the effect of rainfall on sea-surface microwave thermal emission are considered. The sea surface is described as a multitude of independent ring waves, perturbed by rain, and characterized by a power spectrum determined by rain parameters. This description allows us to explain the increase of the brightness temperature of a perturbed sea surface as the result of the resonance phenomenon in thermal emission. |
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