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SCOPE
The San Clemente Ocean Probing Experiment (SCOPE) was an experiment organized
by ETL to study the effects of the atmosphere on active and passive microwave
remote sensing measurements of the ocean surface. It was conducted in
September, 1993 from a cliff (573 m MSL) on Southern California's San
Clemente Island (SCI) which allowed the ETL
NOAA/D
radar to view
the ocean surface out to 50 km and over a 220\170 azimuth sector. Also located
on SCI was ETL's Doppler lidar which documented marine boundary layer (MBL)
winds in the vicinity of the island. The Floating Instrument Platform (FLIP)
from Scripps Institute was positioned 31 km from the radar/lidar site and
proved to be an ideal platform from which to measure the atmospheric surface
layer wind, wind stress and stability. In-situ measurements of the atmosphere
were also made from the R/V Titan and microwave and IR radiometric measurements
of emission from the surface were made from a NOAA King Air aircraft. Results
of the project include radar observations of ocean surface manifestations of
island-generated eddies in the MBL and radar signal modulations caused by
propagation of the radar beam through standing waves on the marine inversion
when the inversion was below the level of the radar.
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