Meteorological and Wave Measurements from a Stable Research Platform at Sea

Abstract

The development of short-term wave forecasting capability, a stated goal of the High-Resolution Wave-Air-Sea Interaction project, requires observational information that will both serve to improve the understanding of the underlying physics and will be used to test the predictive potential of wave propagation models. For a stochastic and nonlinear environment such as the air-sea interface, a considerable uncertainty still exists regarding the mechanisms of energy and momentum exchange as well as the rates of that exchange. While wave dynamics on the water side has already been reduced to a computationally-intensive numerical problem (Friehe et al., 2007, section III.B), the complexity of which is determined by the number of nonlinearly interacting wave modes, the wind driving of the waves on the other hand, is less understood.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2008
Accession Number
ADA533864

Entities

People

  • Tihomir Hristov

Organizations

  • Johns Hopkins University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Flow
  • Barometric Pressure
  • Boundary Layer
  • Data Acquisition
  • Data Analysis
  • Delphi Method
  • Dynamics
  • Energy Transfer
  • Engineering
  • High Resolution
  • Inertial Navigation
  • Layers
  • Measurement
  • Navigation
  • Platforms
  • Uncertainty
  • Wave Propagation

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Mechanical Engineering/Mechanics of Materials.
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Systems Analysis and Design