Dr. Lyzenga et Ea. Ericson, NUMERICAL-CALCULATIONS OF RADAR SCATTERING FROM SHARPLY PEAKED OCEAN WAVES, IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, 36(2), 1998, pp. 636-646
A numerical solution of the surface-current integral equation is used
to calculate the radar backscatter for several wavelike surfaces. The
surfaces used in this study represent solutions of the water wave equa
tions for finite amplitude, irrotational gravity waves, with steepness
es selected so as to produce minimum radii of curvature ranging from z
ero to a value equal to the electromagnetic wavelength and with wave a
mplitudes ranging from about one-half to five times the electromagneti
c wavelength, The results are used to evaluate the importance of edge
diffraction effects on backscatter from sharply peaked ocean waves.