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RISFetch- and Duration-Limited Nature of Surface Wave Growth inside Tropical Cyclones: With Applications to Air–Sea Exchange and Remote Sensing
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: he 2D wavenumber spectra collected by an airborne scanning radar altimeter in hurricane hunter missions are used to investigate the fetch- and duration-limited nature of wave growth inside hurricanes. Despite the much more ...
Microstructure of Ocean Surface Roughness: A Study of Spatial Measurement and Laboratory Investigation of Modulation Analysis*
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: This paper describes a technique to measure the spatial structure of short capillary?gravity waves on the water surface. The method is based on optical refraction of a single laser beam crossing the air?water interface to ...
Phase Distribution of Small-Scale Ocean Surface Roughness
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Remote sensing is becoming an important tool for oceanographic research. As the resolution of remote sensors is becoming comparable to the wavelength of dominant ocean surface waves, the usual assumption of homogeneous ...
Transports and Net Fluxes of Surface Wave Energy and Momentum inside Tropical Cyclones: Spectrum Computation and Modeling
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Transports and net fluxes of surface wave energy and momentum inside tropical cyclones (TCs) are analyzed with wave spectra acquired by hurricane hunters. Previous analyses of dominant wave properties show primary feature ...
Comments on “Relating the Drag Coefficient and the Roughness Length over the Sea to the Wavelength of the Peak Waves”
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
A Note on the Ocean Surface Roughness Spectrum
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: In a recent study, the dimensionless surface roughness spectrum has been empirically parameterized as a power-law function of the dimensionless wind speed expressed as the ratio of wind friction velocity and phase speed ...
A Study of the Wavenumber Spectra of Short Water Waves in the Ocean. Part II: Spectral Model and Mean Square Slope
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: This paper presents a wavenumber spectral model of the surface water waves in the capillary?gravity regime. The database for the analysis consists of spatial and temporal measurements of surface slopes obtained from a ...
High-Wind Drag Coefficient and Whitecap Coverage Derived from Microwave Radiometer Observations in Tropical Cyclones
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: AbstractOcean surface roughness and whitecaps are driven by the ocean surface wind stress; thus, their values calculated from the wind speed input may vary significantly depending on the drag coefficient formula applied. ...
Effective Fetch and Duration of Tropical Cyclone Wind Fields Estimated from Simultaneous Wind and Wave Measurements: Surface Wave and Air–Sea Exchange Computation
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: imultaneous wind and wave measurements have been obtained inside tropical cyclones in several hurricane hunter missions. Analyses of these datasets show that the surface wave development inside hurricanes follows essentially ...
The Dispersion Relation of Short Wind Waves from Space–Time Wave Measurements
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: To study the dispersion relation of short wind waves, a linear wave gauge array (WGA) is configured and mounted on a wave-following buoy to conduct in situ space?time measurements of short gravity waves. Results from two ...