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Because wind-generated waves can propagate over large distances, wave spectra from a fixed point can record information about air-sea interactions in distant areas. In this study, the spectral wave climate is computed for a specific…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2019-02-14 Haoyu Jiang , Lin Mu

Recent research shows that the surface wave energy dissipation, which is the vertical energy flux across the air-sea interface, can be calculated as the product of air density, reference wind speed cubed and an energy transfer coefficient…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2019-06-24 Paul A. Hwang

The upper few meters of the ocean play a key role in air-sea exchanges of momentum and energy. Two important properties of this layer are the vertical shear of current velocity and the surface velocity. Vertical shear reflects momentum…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 G. Hasson , S. Støle-Hentschel , T. Vrećica , V. Shrira , Y. Toledo

A spectrogram is a useful way of using short-time discrete Fourier transforms to visualise surface height measurements taken of ship wakes in real world conditions. For a steadily moving ship that leaves behind small-amplitude waves, the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-12-21 Ravindra Pethiyagoda , Scott W. McCue , Timothy J. Moroney

Inhomogeneities in the wave field due to wave groups, currents, and shoaling among other ocean processes can affect the mean water level. In this work, the classical and unsolved problem of continuously computing the set-down and the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-01 Saulo Mendes

The propagation of surface water waves interacting with a current and an uneven bottom is studied. Such a situation is typical for ocean waves where the winds generate currents in the top layer of the ocean. The role of the bottom…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-19 Alan C. Compelli , Rossen I. Ivanov , Calin I. Martin , Michail D. Todorov

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves are routinely observed in the solar atmosphere. These waves are important in the context of solar physics as it is widely believed they can contribute to the energy budget of the solar atmosphere and are a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Samuel Skirvin , Viktor Fedun , Suzana Silva , Gary Verth

Effects of spatially varying interfacial parameters on the propagation of surface waves are studied. These variations can arise from inhomogeneities in coverage of surface active substances such as amphiphillic molecules at the fluid/gas…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 T. Chou , David R. Nelson

Asymptotic multi-layer analyses and computation of solutions for turbulent flows over steady and unsteady monochromatic surface wave are reviewed, in the limits of low turbulent stresses and small wave amplitude. The structure of the flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-12-17 S. G. Sajjadi , J. C. R. Hunt , F. Drullion

(Abridged) Wavelet analysis can be used to measure the power spectrum of solar wind fluctuations along a line in any direction with respect to the local mean magnetic field. This technique is applied to study solar wind turbulence in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 J. J. Podesta

Deep ocean acoustics, in the absence of shipping and wildlife, is driven by surface processes. Best understood is the signal generated by non-linear surface wave interactions, the Longuet-Higgins mechanism, which dominates from 0.1 to 10…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Zachary Guralnik , William Farrell , John Bourdelais , Xavier Zabalgogeazcoa

Weakly nonlinear internal wave-wave interaction is a key mechanism that cascades energy from large to small scales, leading to ocean turbulence and mixing. Oceans typically have a non-uniform density stratification profile; moreover,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-13 Saranraj Gururaj , Anirban Guha

Distributions of wave characteristics of ocean waves, such as wave slope, waveheight or wavelength, are an important tool in a variety of oceanographic applications such as safety of ocean structures or in the study of ship stability, as…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-12-18 Sofia Aberg , Igor Rychlik , M. Ross Leadbetter

One region of the electromagnetic spectrum that is relatively unexploited for materials characterization is the millimeter wave band (frequencies roughly between 40 and 300 GHz). Millimeter wave techniques involve free-space…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 John A. Scales , Michael Batzle

To calculate the wind-waves in the Indian Ocean (IO), the wind field for the period from 1998 to 2009 was used, obtained from the NCEP/NOAA archive, and numerical model WAM (Cycle-4) was applied, modified by the new source function proposed…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2011-09-30 V. G. Polnikov , F. A. Pogarskii , S. A. Sannasiraj , V. Sundar

The paper continues to study the long-standing problem of quasi 1-D (one dimensional) spectrum of sea surface wave turbulence. The study is based on Hasselmann's kinetic equation, which significantly simplifies for the quasi 1-D turbulence.…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2024-07-09 Alexander M Balk

The initial value problem is solved for the excitation of long surface gravity waves in a continuously sheared flow. This reveals the presence of a continuous spectrum along side the standard normal modes of gravity wave propagation. An…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-04 Jeffrey R. Carpenter

Numerical and observational evidence indicates that, in regions where mixed-layer instability is active, the surface geostrophic velocity is largely induced by surface buoyancy anomalies. Yet, in these regions, the observed surface kinetic…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2022-08-01 Houssam Yassin , Stephen M. Griffies

Vertical profiles for mean wind, standard deviations of velocity fluctuations, and wave-induced part of the momentum flux over a wavy fluid surface are calculated in the Cartesian coordinates on the basis of recent numerical results by…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2010-06-21 Vladislav G. Polnikov

We investigated the behavior of the spectral slope of interplanetary magnetic field fluctuations at proton scales for selected high resolution time intervals from WIND and MESSENGER spacecraft at $1$ AU and $0.56$ AU, respectively. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 R. Bruno , L. Trenchi , D. Telloni