State of the Art in Ocean-Atmosphere Interface Modeling.

Abstract

Two important naval modeling problems, acoustic torpedo surface reverberation in shallow water and remote radar sea surface imaging, are dependent on an understanding of sea surface gravity - capillary waves. To understand the state of the art in sea surface modeling, the fundamental mathematical relations are first reviewed and then applied to four phenomena that affect the spectra of short gravity - capillary waves. These four phenomena are wind velocity, surface current, swell, and internal waves. The most recent sea surface models for these phenomena are discussed and then a software modeling approach based upon the radiative transfer equation is suggested that would provide the requisite statistical parameters for treating the two naval modeling problems.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA123364

Entities

People

  • J. A. Neubert

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Torpedoes
  • Atmospheric Motion
  • Capillary Waves
  • Deep Water
  • Detectors
  • Diffraction
  • Equations
  • Gravity Waves
  • Internal Waves
  • Radar Sensing
  • Radiative Transfer
  • Scattering
  • Shallow Water
  • Surface Waves
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar
  • Wind
  • Wind Velocity

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Systems Analysis and Design