%0 Journal Article %A Belobrova, M. V. %A Ivanov, V. K. %A Koshel, A. N. %A Ostrovsky, I. E. %A Fuks, I. M. %D 1997 %I Begell House %N 2-3 %P 85-92 %R 10.1615/TelecomRadEng.v51.i2-3.70 %T Radio Meteorological Parameters Determining Microwave Radio Propagation over the Ocean and their Measurement Techniques %U https://www.dl.begellhouse.com/journals/0632a9d54950b268,641aaf9631ca055a,208b39f71cede31b.html %V 51 %X The data of refractive index measurements are used to calculate the heights H0 and "M- deficits" of surface ducts over the sea, as well as structure constants CN, and axial ratio α of refractive index inhomogeneities determining the attenuation of microwave signals propagating over the sea surface. The variability of these parameters with the geographic region and year season is estimated.
The possibility of estimating these radio meteorological parameters from the data of standard hydro-meteorological measurements has been tested using the Monin-Obukhov theory for the atmospheric boundary layer. It is shown that the results of such calculations reasonably correlate with the refractometry data, (the axial ratio α except), in the case ωηεν the universal constant αe of the Monin-Obukhov theory is equal to 300. %8 1997-03-20