The Response of Wind Ripples to Long Surface Waves

Abstract

Long-term goals are: (1) To develop an advanced physical model of the wind wave spectrum based on the Donelan and Pierson (1987) approach and accounting for the nonlinear processes in the capillary-gravity range consistent with existing analytic models of high-wavenumber spectra. (2) To construct a new version of the ABL model coupled with wind waves using an advanced wind wave spectrum model and the approach developed by Makin et al. (1995). (3) To build an unified model of the short wave modulations by long surface waves. This model describes the reaction of the coupled system `wind waves - ABL' in the presence of surface disturbances caused by long waves. (4) To verify the model results on the available radar data and the new data obtained from the MHI Black Sea Research platform.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 1998
Accession Number
ADA539778

Entities

People

  • Mark A. Donelan
  • Vladimir E. Zakharov
  • Vladimir K. Makin
  • Vladimir N. Kudryavtsev

Organizations

  • University of Miami

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Flow
  • Atmosphere Models
  • Atmospheres
  • Black Sea
  • Boundary Layer
  • Capillary Waves
  • Electronic Mail
  • Energy
  • Energy Transfer
  • Equations
  • Gravity Waves
  • Heat Transfer
  • Integral Equations
  • Layers
  • Salt Water
  • Surface Waves
  • Waves

Readers

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