Airborne Measurement of the Space/Time Properties of Waves in the Coastal Zone

Abstract

LONG-TERM GOAL. Our long-term goal in this project is to utilize a newly-developed airborne microwave technique to monitor the propagation of waves from the deep ocean into the coastal zone. SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVES. Our scientific objectives are to investigate the generation of forced waves produced by quadratic nonlinearities, the refraction of swell in shallow water, the possibility of determining bottom topography from refraction, and the effects of bottom topography and composition on the reflection and attenuation of swell propagating shoreward.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 1997
Accession Number
ADA635379

Entities

People

  • William J. Plant

Organizations

  • University of Washington

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Airborne
  • Aircrafts
  • Antennas
  • Coherent Radar
  • Continental Shelves
  • Deep Oceans
  • Local Oscillators
  • Measurement
  • Military Research
  • Operating Systems
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Refraction
  • Remote Sensing
  • Remotely Piloted Vehicles
  • Shallow Water
  • Topography
  • Waves

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Oceanography.
  • Wave Propagation and Nonlinear Chaotic Dynamics.

Technology Areas

  • Space