High-Resolution Measurement-Based Phase-Resolved Prediction of Ocean Wave-fields

Abstract

Given remote and direct physical measurements of a realistic ocean wave-field, we obtain a high-resolution deterministic description of the nonlinear wave-field by integrating the measurements with a phase-resolved wave prediction model including realistic environmental effects such as wind forcing and wave breaking dissipation. The effectiveness of the phase-resolved wave reconstruction and forecasting capability is verified by direct comparisons with HiRes hybrid (radar, ATM and buoy) measurements of realistic ocean wave-fields. In addition, we address the validity, accuracy and limitations of such wave-field reconstruction and forecasting.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 06, 2013
Accession Number
ADA574248

Entities

People

  • Dick K P Yue
  • Yuming Liu

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Delphi Method
  • Dissipation
  • Electrical Solitons
  • Engineering
  • High Resolution
  • Low Pass Filters
  • Measurement
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Ocean Waves
  • Performance Tests
  • Personal Information Managers
  • Pressure Distribution
  • Simulations
  • Statistics
  • Wave Propagation
  • Waves

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science
  • Physics

Readers

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers