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contributor authorBabanin, Alexander V.
contributor authorHaus, Brian K.
date accessioned2017-06-09T16:30:48Z
date available2017-06-09T16:30:48Z
date copyright2009/10/01
date issued2009
identifier issn0022-3670
identifier otherams-69211.pdf
identifier urihttp://onlinelibrary.yabesh.ir/handle/yetl/4210855
description abstractThis paper is dedicated to wave-induced turbulence unrelated to wave breaking. The existence of such turbulence has been foreshadowed in a number of experimental, theoretical, and numerical studies. The current study presents direct measurements of this turbulence. The laboratory experiment was conducted by means of particle image velocimetry, which allowed estimates of wavenumber velocity spectra beneath monochromatic nonbreaking unforced waves. Observed spectra intermittently exhibited the Kolmogorov interval associated with the presence of isotropic turbulence. The magnitudes of the energy dissipation rates due to this turbulence in the particular case of 1.5-Hz deep-water waves were quantified as a function of the surface wave amplitude. The presence of such turbulence, previously not accounted for, can affect the physics of the wave energy dissipation, the subsurface boundary layer, and the ocean mixing in a significant way.
publisherAmerican Meteorological Society
titleOn the Existence of Water Turbulence Induced by Nonbreaking Surface Waves
typeJournal Paper
journal volume39
journal issue10
journal titleJournal of Physical Oceanography
identifier doi10.1175/2009JPO4202.1
journal fristpage2675
journal lastpage2679
treeJournal of Physical Oceanography:;2009:;Volume( 039 ):;issue: 010
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