Secretary of the Navy Professor of Oceanography
Abstract
This project is to be conducted Dr. Munk, who will be trying to understand the records taken on the sea floor at station H2O midway between Oregon and Hawaii, at a depth of 5 km. At higher frequencies they are highly correlated with local surface waves of half their frequency. At still higher frequencies the correlation appears to be with waves of the same frequency! These are largely empirical relations; we do not understand the underlying physics relating the deep-ocean “wind noise” to surface wind speed. work has been limited to analysis of the records at the H2O station. By the end of 2014, Scripps oceanographers, P. Worcester and J. Berger, will have taken six high quality records of pressure and velocity, four north of Hawaii at 5 km depth and two in the eastern Pacific at 1 km depth. These records will be available to Dr. Munk at an early time and in a convenient format; they will provide basic information on the dependence of wind noise on ocean depth and sea floor geology.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Aug 12, 2016
- Source ID
- N000141512105
Entities
People
- Walter Munk
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy
- University of California, San Diego