Development of a Radar/SAR Assimilation System for Internal Wave Prediction

Abstract

Oceanic internal waves, particularly large non-linear ones, can have a significant impact on ship and submarine operations when they move through a region due to the surface currents and buoyancy issues such waves induce. Thus the Navy has a need for a predictive system that can tell a ship or submarine what the future internal wave effects will be in their region. The long term-goal of this project is to provide a component of such a predictive system that will take remote sensing imagery of a region and estimate the current internal wave characteristics within that region. It is then anticipated that these internal wave characteristics will be handed-off to an internal wave propagation model that will generate the future characteristics of the internal waves.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2006
Accession Number
ADA630911

Entities

People

  • Christopher Wackerman

Organizations

  • General Dynamics Mission Systems

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amplitude
  • Assimilation
  • Computer Programs
  • Data Sets
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Dwell Time
  • High Resolution
  • Internal Waves
  • Inversion
  • Radar Cross Sections
  • Remote Sensing
  • Surface Waves
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar
  • Wave Packets
  • Wave Propagation
  • Waves

Readers

  • Atmospheric Remote Sensing.
  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation