First-Order Ocean Surface Cross Section for Shipborne Bistatic HFSWR: Derivation and Simulation
, Xu Liang 1, Weifeng Sun 1, Weimin Huang 2, Yiming Wang 3, Xinling Wang 1 and Zhihao Li 1
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The manuscript is dedicated to study of the first-order ocean surface cross section models for the shipborne bistatic high-frequency surface wave radar. The cases of uniform linear, periodic oscillation, and hybrid platform motions have been considered and simulated. The results obtained are new, interesting and valuable for the field. The manuscript is mostly prepared well but some improvements are still needed in it.
Corrections suggested.
- The paper should have the following structure (see the journal template): Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, and Conclusions. Please, reorganize your paper in accordance with this structure.
- The text in Abstract should not be italicized.
- Please, prepare all the equations in accordance with the journal requirements exactly within the journal template.
- Please, make the figure captions in accordance with the journal template.
- Please, insert blank between the value and its dimension.
- Please, correct the subsection numbering in Section 4 as currently they are “4.1., 1.2., 1.3.”.
- Please, indicate in Conclusion where the results obtained can be used.
- Please, prepare all the references in accordance with the journal template. Also, provide missing DOIs where possible.
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Reviewer 2 Report
The paper is well written and all the provided explanations and conclusions make it easy for the reader to follow the text. Paper's contribution adds up to the existing body of knowledge. My only remarks are about the formatting of the section 2. The formulas are long, thus, it would probably be better to have some spacing between the text and formulas (either by inserting empty lines either by increasing the spacing parameter in Word) - this would provide a better flow and visibility of the text and equations. Also, steps could be written in bold font, for example, Step 1: The first-order scattering electric field - this would make the steps as sort of subsections of section 2, and this would also improve the flow of the text. Some equations would probably benefit from moving them from text to separate lines like the equation in lines 130-131 cited from [9]. In line 103, in front of sentence "? and ?0 denote light speed..." period at the end of previous sentence can be mistaken as multiplication symbol at first glance. Put Parameters or some similar word at the beginning of the sentence.
Some typos:
Line 22 (in abstract) improvingthe
Line 52 transmitted - it should be transmitter
At multiple places - speedspeed
In fig. 1 it would be better to write vectors ρ1' and ρ2' like in the text (' is not under the arrow in the text so it is more visible than in fig. 1 where ' is below the arrow so it is not clearly visible)
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