Wind Sea Growth and Dissipation in the Open Ocean

Hanson, Jeffrey L.; Phillips, O. M.

doi:10.1175/1520-0485(1999)029<1633:wsgadi>2.0.co;2

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“…Such organized phenomena lead to the conclusion that the hypothesis of local equilibrium for pure wind waves (Toba, 1972) can also be satisfied for wind waves that coexist with opposing swell. The recent finding of Hanson and Phillips (1999) can be explained by this mechanism.…”

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“…Dobson et al (1988) analyzed their field data of ocean waves and reported that an opposing swell does not influence the growth of fetchlimited wind waves. Recently, Hanson and Phillips (1999) investigated wind sea growth and dissipation in a swelldominated open ocean environment. They obtained a similar result; dimensionless wind sea energy is scaled with inverse wave age, independently of swell.…”

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“…During the past forty year or so, many studies have been conducted on the effect of swell on air-sea interactions (Mitsuyasu, 1966(Mitsuyasu, , 1997Phillips and Banner, 1974;Wright, 1976;Hatori et al, 1981;Donelan, 1987Donelan, , 1999Dobson et al, 1988;Tsuruya, 1988;Masson, 1993;Sakai et al, 1994;Hanson and Phillips, 1999;Mitsuyasu and Maeda, 2002). However, the problem is still controversial and consistent results have not yet been obtained (Hanson and Phillips, 1999).…”

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“…However, the problem is still controversial and consistent results have not yet been obtained (Hanson and Phillips, 1999). Furthermore, many of these studies are concerned with individual phenomena such as attenuation of wind waves by following swell, growth of swell by following wind, and attenuation of swell by opposing wind, but these phenomena are generated simultaneously.…”

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2005

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“…Thorpe (1993), Melville (1994), Terray et al (1996), Hanson and Phillips (1999) (1985) and Donelan and Pierson (1987) in analytical models described above) used the balance of source terms to derive . He argued that, for stationary fetch-limited no-current conditions, and are more than an order of magnitude larger than the advection and the non-linear interaction terms in some parts of the wave spectrum.…”

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Wave modelling – The state of the art

Cavaleri¹,

Alves²,

Ardhuin³

et al. 2007

Progress in Oceanography

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This paper is the product of the wave modelling community and it tries to make a picture of the present situation in this branch of science, exploring the previous and the most recent results and looking ahead towards the solution of the problems we presently face. Both theory and applications are considered.The many faces of the subject imply separate discussions. This is reflected into the single sections, seven of them, each dealing with a specific topic, the whole providing a broad and solid overview of the present state of the art. After an introduction framing the problem and the approach we followed, we deal in sequence with the following subjects: (Section) 2, generation by wind; 3, non-linear interactions in deep water; 4, white-capping dissipation; 5, non-linear interactions in shallow water; 6, dissipation at the sea bottom; 7, wave propagation; 8, numerics. The two final sections, 9 and 10, summarize the present situation from a general point of view and try to look at the future developments. Keywords

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An observation of sea‐spray microphysics by airborne Doppler radar

Fairall

Pezoa

Moran

et al. 2014

Geophysical Research Letters

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This paper describes observations and analysis of Doppler radar data from a down-looking 94 GHz (W-Band) system operated from a NOAA WP-3 Orion research aircraft in Tropical Storm (TS) Karen. The flight took place on 5 October 2013; Karen had weakened with maximum winds around 20 m s À1 . Doppler spectral moments from the radar were processed to retrieve sea-spray microphysical properties (drop size and liquid water mass concentration) profiles in the height range 75-300 m above the sea surface. In the high wind speed regions of TS Karen (U 10 > 15 m s À1 ), sea spray was observed with a nominal mass-mode radius of about 40 μm, a radar-weighted gravitational fall velocity of about 1 m s À1 , and a mass concentration of about 10 À3 gm À3 at 75 m. Spray-drop mass concentration declined with height to values of about 10 À4 gm À3 at 300 m. Drop mass decreased slightly more slowly with increasing height than predicted by surface-layer similarity theory for a balance of turbulent diffusion vs fall velocity.

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Wind Sea Growth and Dissipation in the Open Ocean

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Air-Sea Interactions under the Existence of Opposing Swell

Air-Sea Interactions under the Existence of Opposing Swell

Wave modelling – The state of the art

An observation of sea‐spray microphysics by airborne Doppler radar

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