Inversion of Ocean Wave Spectrum from the Multi-frequency HF Radar Sea Echoes with Wind and Swell Coexisting

Abstract

Recently, the multi-frequency HF radar has attracted much attention. However, only a few works focus on the method of obtaining wave information directly. In this work, a wave spectrum inversion method for multi-frequency HF radar in complex sea conditions is proposed. This method considers the swell component in the ocean, and uses multiple HF radars of different frequencies to obtain the echo Doppler spectra from complex sea conditions with wind and swell coexisting. And then the wave spectrum is derived from the high-energy outer second-order spectra and the corresponding first-order peak of the Doppler spectra. In addition, the proposed method is applied to the simulated sea echo data and the result indicates that the method is effective.