Wave Dissipation and Balance - NOPP Wave Project

Abstract

Wind-generated waves play a prominent role at the interfaces of the ocean with the atmosphere, land and solid Earth. Waves also define in many ways the appearance of the ocean seen by remote-sensing instruments. Beyond these geophysical aspects, waves also affect human activities at sea and on the coast. The long-term goals of this research are to obtain a better understanding of the physical processes that affect ocean surface waves and their interactions with ocean currents and turbulence, seismic waves, sediments and remote sensing systems, and to improve our forecasting and hindcasting capacity of these phenomena from the global ocean to the nearshore scale.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA555068

Entities

People

  • Alvise Benetazzo
  • Fabrice Ardhuin
  • Francesco Fedele

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Calibration
  • Couplings
  • Delphi Method
  • Dissipation
  • Doppler Effect
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Shift
  • Measurement
  • Ocean Currents
  • Ocean Waves
  • Oceans
  • Remote Sensing
  • Three Dimensional
  • Water
  • Water Waves
  • Waves

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

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