Growing Network of Radar Systems Monitors Ocean Surface Currents
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High-frequency radar observations of ocean surface currents.
This article reviews the discovery, development, and use of high-frequency (HF) radio wave backscatter in oceanography. HF radars, as the instruments are commonly called, remotely measure ocean surface currents by exploiting a Bragg resonant backscatter phenomenon. Electromagnetic waves in the HF band (3-30 MHz) have wavelengths that are commensurate with wind-driven gravity waves on the ocean ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Eos
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2324-9250
DOI: 10.1029/2016eo049243