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In order to expand the method of SWR detection of ocean dynamics parameters, a simulation model of an SWR sea echo spectrum based on the Barrick sea surface scattering cross-section model (Barrick model) and 3D ray-tracing method, suitable for a narrow-beam, frequency-modulated continuous-wave radar system (FMCW), was established. Based on this model, we simulated ideal and contaminated SWR sea echo spectra, respectively with the 3D electron density data output by the International Reference Ionosphere (IRI) model. Then, we further analyzed the effects of the grazing incidence angle, scattering angle, scattering azimuth angle and fetch length on the sea surface scattering cross-sections, the retrieval precision of the sea surface wind direction, and the root-mean-square (RMS) wave height, using the simulation data calculated by the Barrick model. The results show that these angles and fetch length cause a small expansion and contraction of the scattering cross-section, and have no influence on the retrieval precision of the sea surface wind direction, but will affect the retrieval precision of the RMS wave height; the influence of the grazing incidence angle and scattering angle is ~2.5 times that of the scattering azimuth angle. The ideal SWR sea echo spectrum has small broadening, but the ionosphere phase contamination will cause serious broadening and shifting of the SWR sea echo spectrum, and the higher order nonlinear term has greater contamination.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14061461","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,20]],"date-time":"2022-03-20T21:37:17Z","timestamp":1647812237000},"page":"1461","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Research on a Simulation Model of a Skywave Over-the-Horizon Radar Sea Echo Spectrum"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Mengyan","family":"Feng","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Meteorology and Oceanography, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410000, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9866-2293","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hanxian","family":"Fang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Meteorology and Oceanography, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410000, China"}]},{"given":"Weihua","family":"Ai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Meteorology and Oceanography, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410000, China"}]},{"given":"Xiongbin","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China"},{"name":"Collaborative Innovation Center of Geospatial Technology, Wuhan 430072, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5733-9601","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xianchang","family":"Yue","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China"},{"name":"Collaborative Innovation Center of Geospatial Technology, Wuhan 430072, China"}]},{"given":"Lan","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China"},{"name":"Collaborative Innovation Center of Geospatial Technology, Wuhan 430072, China"}]},{"given":"Chaogang","family":"Guo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Meteorology and Oceanography, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410000, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5311-8972","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Qing","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China"},{"name":"Collaborative Innovation Center of Geospatial Technology, Wuhan 430072, China"}]},{"given":"Xiaoyan","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China"},{"name":"Collaborative Innovation Center of Geospatial Technology, Wuhan 430072, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"132","DOI":"10.1109\/TAP.1977.1141543","article-title":"Measurement of oceanic wind speed from HF sea scatter by skywave radar","volume":"25","author":"Maresca","year":"1977","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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