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physics.ao-ph2020

Microwave Specular Returns and Ocean Surface Roughness

Paul A. Hwang, Thomas L. Ainsworth, Jeffrey D. Ouellette

Remote sensing measurements have been an important data source of ocean surface roughness. Scatterometers operating at moderate and high incidence angles provide information on the…

physics.ao-ph20191 cited

Do wind-generated waves under steady forcing propagate primarily in the downwind direction?

Paul A. Hwang, David W. Wang, James Yungel +2

Measuring the directional distribution of ocean waves is a difficult task in ocean wave research. For many decades, wind-generated waves are assumed to propagate primarily in the w…

physics.ao-ph2019

Estimating the volume and surface area of air bubbles entrained by breaking waves from whitecap observations: With implications on the characteristic breaking wave speed and breaking strength parameter

Paul A. Hwang

A conceptual model relating the whitecap coverage to the bubble plume buoyancy is developed following the observation that the entrained bubble plume buoyancy constitutes a large p…

physics.ao-ph2019

Effects of Short Scale Roughness and Wave Breaking Efficiency on Sea Spray Aerosol Production: Multisensor Field Observations

Paul A. Hwang, Ivan B. Savelyev, Steve L. Means +5

Simultaneous measurements of sea spray aerosol (SSA), wind, wave, underwater acoustic noise, and microwave brightness temperature are obtained in the open ocean. These data are ana…

physics.ao-ph2019

Directional Distribution of Ocean Surface Roughness Observed in Microwave Radar Backscattering

Paul A. Hwang

The directional distribution of ocean surface roughness is examined using the Ku, C and L band microwave radar backscattering. The parameters characterizing the upwind-downwind and…

physics.ao-ph2019

Horizontal and vertical energy fluxes of ocean surface waves and their derivation from spaceborne altimeter measurements

Paul A. Hwang

Recent research shows that the surface wave energy dissipation, which is the vertical energy flux across the air-sea interface, can be calculated as the product of air density, ref…