Influences of wind bursting on radar return

Wind bursting events associated with intermittent and violent momentum transfers in the marine surface layer are identified with a three-axis sonic anemometer. Simultaneous measurements of X-band radar returns, airlows and sea-surface displacements are investigated during these events. Localizations of bursts, with respect to the underlying dominant waves, are estimated. Energies of surface elevations and radar returns during burstings are also estimated. The conditional sampling of the data during bursting events does not reveal any link among the enhanced air-sea momentum transfers, surface elevations and the radar returns.