January 1977 VOLUME 2 NUMBER 1 IJOEDY(ISSN 0364-9059)


 SPECIAL ISSUE ON Radio oceanography

NONTECHNICAL CONTENT
Front cover and table of contents
Back cover

PREFACE
Calvin T. Swift Preface-Special issue on radio oceanography 1

PAPERS
Dennis B. Trizna, John C. Moore, James M. Headrick, and Robert W. Bogle Directional sea spectrum determination using HF Doppler radar techniques 4
Calvin C. Teague, G. Leonard Tyler, and Robert H. Stewart Studies of the sea using HF radio scatter 12
Donald E. Barrick and Jack B. Snider The statistics of HF sea-echo Doppler spectra 19
William J. Plant Studies of backscattered sea return with a CW, dual-frequency, X -band radar 28
Kurt A. Graf, Dennis E. Tremain, and Harold Guthart Induced-current effects on microwave backscatter 36
F. G. Bass, S. Ya. Braude, I. M. Fuks, A. I. Kalmykov, A. V. Megn, I. E. Ostrovsky, and A. D. Rosenberg Radiophysical investigations of sea roughness (radiooceanography) at the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences 43
W. Linwood Jones, Lyle C. Schroeder, and John L. Mitchell Aircraft measurements of the microwave scattering signature of the ocean 52
Donald L. Hammond, Robert A. Mennella, and Edward J. Walsh Short pulse radar used to measure sea surface wind speed and SWH 61
Gary S. Brown The average impulse responce of a rough surface and its applications 67
David E. Weissman and James W. Johnson Dual frequency correlation radar measurements of the height statistics of ocean waves 74
Charles Elachi and Walter E. Brown Jr. Models of radar imaging of the ocean surface waves 84
William M. Truman, Constantine A. Balanis, and John J. Holmes Three- dimensional vector modeling and restoration of flat finite wave tank radiometric measurements 95
Lawrence A. Klein and Calvin T. Swift An improved model for the dielectric constant of sea water at microwave frequencies 104
Thomas T. Wilheit Jr. and Mary Grace Fowler Microwave radiometric determination of wind speed at the surface of the ocean during BESEX 111
Hans-Juergen C. Blume, A. W. Love, M. J. Van Melle, and William W. Ho Radiometric observations of sea temperature at 2.65 GHZ over the chesapeake bay 121

SUCCINCT PAPERS
James R. Barnum, Joseph W. Maresca Jr., and Sidney M. Serebreny High-resolution mapping of oceanic wind fields with skywave radar 128
Joseph W. Maresca Jr. and James R. Barnum Measurement of oceanic wind speed from HF sea scatter by skywave radar 132
I. A. Leykin, I. E. Ostrovsky, and A. D. Rosenberg Determination of space and time sea wave structure from frequency characteristics of the radio signal scattered by the sea 136
Dale L. Schuler An experimental study of a pulse compression scatterometer system 140
Edward J. Walsh Problems inherent in using aircraft for radio oceanography studies 145
Charles Elachi and Daniel D. Evans Effects of random phase changes on the formation of synthetic aperture radar imagery 149