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RISAzimuthal and Radial Variation of Wind-Generated Surface Waves inside Tropical Cyclones
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: or wind-generated waves, the wind-wave triplets (reference wind speed, significant wave height, and spectral peak wave period) are intimately connected through the fetch- or duration-limited wave growth functions. The full ...
Estimating Maximum Significant Wave Height and Dominant Wave Period inside Tropical Cyclones
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: AbstractMaking use of the fetch- and duration-limited nature of wind-wave growth inside tropical cyclones, an algorithm is developed to estimate the maximum significant wave height and dominant wave period of surface waves ...
Propagation Directions of Ocean Surface Waves inside Tropical Cyclones
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: AbstractSurface wave propagation inside tropical cyclones (TCs) is complicated and multiple wave systems are frequently observed. The directional wave spectra acquired by hurricane hunters are analyzed to quantify its ...
Observations of Steep Wave Statistics in Open Ocean Waters
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A new wavelet analysis methodology is proposed to estimate the statistics of steep waves. The method is applied to open ocean wave height data from the Southern Ocean Waves Experiment (1992) and from a field experiment ...
Directionality and Crest Length Statistics of Steep Waves in Open Ocean Waters
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A new wavelet analysis methodology is applied to open ocean wave height data from the Southern Ocean Waves Experiment (1992) and from a field experiment conducted at Duck, North Carolina, in 1997 with the aim of estimating ...
On the Expected Structure of Extreme Waves in a Gaussian Sea. Part II: SWADE Scanning Radar Altimeter Measurements
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: In a previous paper (Phillips et al.) an approximate theory was developed that predicted that the expected configuration of extreme waves in a random sea (or the average configuration of an ensemble of extreme waves) is ...
Pulse Compression and Sea Level Tracking in Satellite Altimetry
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: With the presently operational altimeter on the U.S. Navy satellite GEOSAT, and three new altimeters soon to be launched by the European, French and U.S. space agencies, satellite altimetry promises to become a standard ...
Orbital Velocities Induced by Surface Waves
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: During the third intensive observational period of the Surface Wave Dynamics Experiment (SWADE), an aircraft-based experiment was conducted on 5 March 1991 by deploying slow-fall airborne expendable current profilers (AXCPs) ...
In the Eye of the Storm
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Numerical Simulations and Observations of Surface Wave Fields under an Extreme Tropical Cyclone
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The performance of the wave model WAVEWATCH III under a very strong, category 5, tropical cyclone wind forcing is investigated with different drag coefficient parameterizations and ocean current inputs. The model results ...