Comparison of a new radar ocean imaging model with SARSEX internal wave image data

Abstract

Good agreement is demonstrated between both L-band and X-band SARSEX internal wave image data and the predictions of a new radar ocean imaging model that incorporates Bragg, specular, and composite scattering effects. It then follows that a two-step hydrodynamic modulation process, as hypothesized by Hughes and Gower, Thompson and Gasparovic, and Watson, does not appear lo be required to explain why the SARSEX L-band and X-band internal wave image modulations are comparable.