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The Doppler shift caused by ocean waves is known as the wave-induced Doppler velocity (UWD), and its removal is critical for the accurate retrieval of sea surface current fields. The low-incidence Ka-band real-aperture radar rotary scan regime has the capability of directly observing wide-swath two-dimensional current fields, but as a new regime to be further explored and validated, simulation and analysis of UWD in this regime have a significant influence on the hardware design and currently observed applications of this satellite system in its conceptual stage. In this study, we simulated and investigated the impacts of radar parameters and sea-state conditions on the UWD obtained from small-incidence-angle Ka-band rotational scanning radar data and verified the simulation results with the classical analytical solution of average specular scattering point velocity. Simulation results indicate that the change in the azimuth direction of platform observation affects UWD accuracy. Accuracy is the lowest when the antenna is in a vertical side-view. The UWD increases slowly with the incidence angle. Ocean waves are insensitive to polarization in the case of small-incidence-angle specular scattering. The increase in wind speed and the development of wind waves result in a substantial increase in UWD. We classified swell by wavelength and wave height and found that UWD increases with swell size, especially the contribution of swell height to UWD, which is more significant. The contribution of the swell to UWD is smaller than that of wind waves to UWD. Furthermore, the existence of sea surface currents changes the contribution of ocean waves to UWD, and the contribution weakens with increasing wind speed and increases with wind wave development.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15041127","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,2,20]],"date-time":"2023-02-20T01:36:37Z","timestamp":1676856997000},"page":"1127","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Effects of Wave-Induced Doppler Velocity on the Sea Surface Current Measurements by Ka-Band Real-Aperture Radar with Small Incidence Angle"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Xiangchao","family":"Ma","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Qingdao 266061, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3358-8245","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Junmin","family":"Meng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Qingdao 266061, China"},{"name":"Technology Innovation Center for Ocean Telemetry, Ministry of Natural Resources, Qingdao 266061, China"}]},{"given":"Chenqing","family":"Fan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Qingdao 266061, China"},{"name":"Technology Innovation Center for Ocean Telemetry, Ministry of Natural Resources, Qingdao 266061, China"}]},{"given":"Ping","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electronics and Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,2,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Martz, H.E., McNeil, B.J., Amundson, S.A., Aspnes, D.E., Barnett, A., Borak, T.B., Braby, L.A., Heimdahl, M.P., Hyland, S.L., and Jacobson, S.H. 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