Direct influence of gravity waves on surface-layer stress during a cold air outbreak, as shown by Synthetic Aperture Radar From: Monthly Weather Review | Date: November 1, 2002| Author: Winstead, Nathaniel S; Sikora, Todd D; Thompson, Donald R; Mourad, Pierre D | Copyright American Meteorological Society Nov 2002. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

ABSTRACT

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images of oceans and the Great Lakes have provided a highly detailed means of observing atmospheric boundary layer phenomena such as convection, land breezes, and internal gravity waves. This is possible because the backscattered radiation detected by SAR can be dominated by scattering from wind-driven capillary waves whose spatial variation is visible as patterns in the SAR images. In this paper, we present two case studies in which SAR images ...