December 1984 VOLUME 9 NUMBER 5 IJOEDY(ISSN 0364-9059)


 SPECIAL ISSUE ON Microwave signatures of the sea, sea ice, and snow

NONTECHNICAL CONTENT
Front cover and table of contents
Back cover

GUEST EDITORIAL
Richard K. Moore and Erwin Schanda Guest editors' preface 289

INVITED PAPERS
Daniel S. W. Kwoh and Bruce M. Lake A deterministic, coherent, and dual-polarized laboratory study of microwave backscattering from water waves, Part I: Short gravity waves without wind 291
A. Hameed Chaudhry and Richard K. Moore Tower-based backscatter measurements of the sea 309
Richard T. Lawner and Richard K. Moore Short gravity and capillary wave spectra from tower-based radar 317
A. I. Baskakov, Sergey P. Gagarin, A. A. Kalinkevitch, Boris G. Kutuza, and V. A. Terekhov Simultaneous radiometric and radar altimetric measurements of sea microwave signatures 325
A. A. Kurskaya and Boris G. Kutuza Radiophysical techniques employed for sea ice investigations 329
Christian Mätzler, René O. Ramseier, and Einar Svendsen Polarization effects in seaice signatures 333
Niels Skou and Leif Toudal Pedersen Microwave signatures of the sea ice in the east Greenland current 339
Vitale V. Bogorodsky and A. N. Darovskih Interpretation of aircraft sea ice microwave data 344
Helmut Rott The analysis of backscattering properties from SAR data of mountain regions 347
Vitale V. Bogorodsky and A. I. Kozlov On the ability of microwave radiometers to resolve spatially underlying surfaces and on methods to improve it 356
G. P. Khokhlov Distribution of electrical parameters in upper layers of shelf, land, and fast ice near Novolazarevskaya station 360
Christian Mätzler, Hubert Aebischer, and Erwin Schanda Microwave dielectric properties of surface snow 366
Martti T. Hallikainen Retrieval of snow water equivalent from Nimbus-7 SMMR data: Effect of land-cover categories and weather conditions 372
Martti E. Tiuri, Ari H. Sihvola, Ebbi G. Nyfors, and Martti T. Hallikaiken The complex dielectric constant of snow at microwave frequencies 377
Young-Soo Kim, Robert G. Onstott, and Richard K. Moore Effect of a snow cover on microwave backscatter from sea ice 383

BOOK REVIEWS
Michael W. Little Surveys in fluid mechanics 389