The document discusses modeling the radar cross section (RCS) of rough sea surfaces covered in oil. It describes statistically characterizing natural sea and oil slick surfaces using height distributions and spectra. It presents models for the height spectrum of clean seas and oil-covered seas, and compares their predicted slope variances. Electromagnetic simulations using the spectra show good agreement between methods for RCS of clean and contaminated surfaces over a range of oil layer thicknesses and incidence angles. The work provides a foundation for further modeling oil slick detection using radar.