Identifying Marine Boundary Layer Mean State and Air-Sea Stratification Using Global High-Resolution Microwave Backscatter Measurements of Sea-Surface Roughness

Ralph C Foster, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, Douglas C Vandemark, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, Justin E Stopa, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Ocean and Resources Engineering, Honolulu, HI, United States, Chen Wang, Ifremer, LOPS, Brest, France, Bertrand Chapron, IFREMER, Univ. Brest, CNRS, IRD, Laboratoire d'Océanographie Physique et Spatiale, Brest, France and Alexis Mouche, Ifremer, LOPS, Plouzané, France