Barotropic to Baroclinic Energy Conversion Across Topographyically Rough Straits With Application to the Luzon Strait

Abstract

This is a joint UNC-UCSD proposal whose main goal is to assess the relative contribution of local dissipation versus far-field radiation of internal waves generated by the barotropic tide flowing across topographically rough straits in the Western Pacific, with special emphasis on the Luzon Strait Area. In this report, we focus on the UNC contribution. Objectives: 1. Quantify the conversion rate of Barotropic to Baroclinic energy over rough topography; 2. Quantify the amount of IW energy dissipated locally vs. the amount radiated into the far field; 3. Examine the physical processes leading to dissipation at small scale; 4. Understand the formation of Nonlinear Internal Waves emerging from the Luzon Strait.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2009
Accession Number
ADA531806

Entities

People

  • Ailing W. Scott
  • S. Mitran

Organizations

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Air Conditioning
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Continental Shelves
  • Conversion
  • Dissipation
  • Energy
  • Energy Conversion
  • Far Field
  • Frequency
  • Internal Waves
  • Models
  • Oceanography
  • Radiation
  • Richardson Number
  • Topography
  • Waves

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Electromagnetic Wave Scattering and Antenna Radiation Engineering
  • Oceanography.