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Article Dans Une Revue Geophysical Research Letters Année : 2015

Estimates of ocean wave heights and attenuation in sea ice using the SAR wave mode on Sentinel-1A

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Swell evolution from the open ocean into sea ice is poorly understood, in particular the amplitude attenuation expected from scattering and dissipation. New synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data from Sentinel-1A wave mode reveal intriguing patterns of bright oscillating lines shaped like instant noodles. We investigate cases in which the oscillations are in the azimuth direction, around a straight line in the range direction. This observation is interpreted as the distortion by the SAR processing of crests from a first swell, due to the presence of a second swell. Since deviations from a straight line should be proportional to the orbital velocity toward the satellite, swell height can be estimated, from 1.5 to 5 m in the present case. The evolution of this 13 s period swell across the ice pack is consistent with an exponential attenuation on a length scale of 200 km.

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Océanographie

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hal-01151047 , version 1 (12-05-2015)

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Fabrice Ardhuin, Fabrice Collard, Bertrand Chapron, Fanny Girard-Ardhuin, Gilles Guitton, et al.. Estimates of ocean wave heights and attenuation in sea ice using the SAR wave mode on Sentinel-1A. Geophysical Research Letters, 2015, 42 (7), pp.2317-2325. ⟨10.1002/2014GL062940⟩. ⟨hal-01151047⟩
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