Abstract
An overview of the Georgia Strait Experiment ( Joint Canada‐U.S. Ocean Wave Investigation Project, or JOWIP), 1983, is presented containing a list of participants, objectives, procedures, and main results. JOWIP was designed to provide quantitative comparisons between surface measurements and remote SAR imagery of internal waves and narrow V surface ship wakes. First‐order Bragg modeling gives factor of 3 accuracy for L band internal wave modulation; the composite model and possibly nonlinear surface wave‐internal wave interaction theory are required at X band. Narrow V wakes were imaged in Dabob Bay, Washington, under low‐wind conditions at L band. Surface slopes in the Kelvin wakes are not large enough to produce specular reflections even at a radar incidence angle of 23°. Modulations along the V arms are strongly evident and have the same wavelength as the transverse Kelvin wake component. These results and others are described in detail in other papers in this same issue.
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