Microwave emission and scattering of foam based on Monte Carlo simulations of dense media
Date
2003
Authors
Chen, Chi-Te, author
Ding, Kung-Hau, author
Rose, Louis Allen, author
Asher, William E., author
Reising, Steven C., author
Zhou, Lin, author
Tsang, Leung, author
Chen, Dong, author
IEEE, publisher
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The foam-covered ocean surface is treated as densely packed air bubbles coated with thin layers of seawater. We apply Monte Carlo simulations of solutions of Maxwell's equations to calculate the absorption, scattering, and extinction coefficients at 10.8 and 36.5 GHz. These quantities are then used in dense-media radiative transfer theory to calculate the microwave emissivity. Numerical results of the model are illustrated as a function of foam parameters. Results of emissivities for both horizontal polarization and vertical polarizations at 10.8 and 36.5 GHz are compared with rECENt experimental measurements.
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microwave emissivity
Monte Carlo simulations
electromagnetic wave scattering
dense-media radiative transfer
ocean foam