Secretary of the Navy Professor of Oceanography

Abstract

Wind stress is responsible for most of the ocean dynamics. Wind stress is largely associated with steep waves shorter than a meter. We are continuing to study this short band in the wave spectrum in the hope that it will lead to better understanding of momentum transfer from atmosphere to oceans. Ambient noise level in the (not so) silent abyssal ocean at 1 to 40 Hz is dominated by a nonlinear generation process associated with the short surface waves.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2010
Accession Number
ADA542619

Entities

People

  • Walter Munk

Organizations

  • Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Tomography
  • Ambient Noise
  • Climate Change
  • Earth Sciences
  • Geography
  • Measurement
  • Momentum Transfer
  • Ocean Observing Systems
  • Oceanography
  • Oceans
  • Physical Oceanography
  • Seabed
  • Spectra
  • Stresses
  • Surface Waves
  • Waves
  • Wind Stress

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Acoustics.
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers