Ocean Surface Wave Optical Roughness - Innovative Measurement and Modeling

Abstract

I am part of a multi-institutional research team funded by the ONR-sponsored Radiance in a Dynamic Ocean (RaDyO) program. The primary research goals of the program are to (1) examine timedependent oceanic radiance distribution in relation to dynamic surface boundary layer (SBL) processes; (2) construct a radiance-based SBL model; (3) validate the model with field observations; and (4) investigate the feasibility of inverting the model to yield SBL conditions. The goals of our team are to contribute innovative measurements, analyses and models of the sea surface roughness at length scales as small as a millimeter. This characterization includes microscale and whitecap breaking waves.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA517435

Entities

People

  • Johannes Gemmrich

Organizations

  • University of Victoria

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Entrainment
  • Algorithms
  • Boundary Layer
  • Cameras
  • Capillary Waves
  • Computer Science
  • Data Acquisition
  • Data Analysis
  • High Resolution
  • Instrumentation
  • Laser Altimeters
  • Measurement
  • Roughness
  • Surface Roughness
  • Surface Waves
  • Wave Power
  • Waves

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Educational Psychology