Four-Dimensional Remote Sensing of the Marine Boundary Layer with a Digital Beamforming Radar Wind Profiler

Abstract

This report details research performed by Quadrant Engineering under ONR SBIR contract no. N00014-93-C-0042. The purpose of this study was to determine the feasibility of deploying a shipboard turbulent eddy profiling (TEP) radar system for studying the dynamics of the marine boundary layer. A similar system is currently being developed by the University of Massachusetts to study the atmospheric boundary over land. During the phase I study, Quadrant Engineering reviewed the design of the land based system, and determined that a slightly scaled down version of that system would be suitable for deployment on a large research vessel, such as the Knorr, operated by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. In this report, we present a design for the shipboard TEP system and consider the particular requirements of installation on the Knorr. We also describe the application of TEP to boundary layer research, especially in terms of complimenting Large Eddy Simulation (LES) models.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 1993
Accession Number
ADA270627

Entities

People

  • James B. Mead

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Altitude
  • Atmospheric Motion
  • Boundary Layer
  • Data Storage Systems
  • Engineering
  • Four Dimensional
  • Layers
  • Massachusetts
  • Military Research
  • Radar
  • Remote Sensing
  • Simulations
  • Standards
  • Turbulence
  • United States
  • Wind Shear
  • Wind Velocity

Readers

  • Electrical Engineering
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Oceanography.