The effects of random surface waves on the steady Ekman current solutions

2009 ◽  
Vol 56 (5) ◽  
pp. 659-671 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin-Bao Song
Keyword(s):  
Surface Waves ◽  
Random Surface ◽  
Ekman Current

scholarly journals On the Interaction of Surface Waves and Upper Ocean Turbulence

2006 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 551-557 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabrice Ardhuin ◽  
Alastair D. Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
Surface Waves ◽  
Wave Energy ◽  
Stokes Drift ◽  
Mean Flow ◽  
Ocean Turbulence ◽  
Random Surface ◽  
Averaged Equations ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
Wave Models ◽  
Wave Induced

Abstract The phase-averaged energy evolution for random surface waves interacting with oceanic turbulence is investigated. The change in wave energy balances the change in the production of turbulent kinetic energy (TKE). Outside the surface viscous layer and the bottom boundary layer the turbulent flux is not related to the wave-induced shear so that eddy viscosity parameterizations cannot be applied. Instead, it is assumed that the wave motion and the turbulent fluxes are not correlated on the scale of the wave period. Using a generalized Lagrangian average it is found that the mean wave-induced shears, despite zero vorticity, yield a production of TKE as if the Stokes drift shear were a mean flow shear. This result provides a new interpretation of a previous derivation from phase-averaged equations by McWilliams et al. It is found that the present source or sink of wave energy is smaller but is still on the order of the empirically adjusted functions used for the dissipation of swell energy in operational wave models, as well as observations of that phenomenon by Snodgrass et al.

Convective instability of stably stratified water in the ocean

1977 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
pp. 561-581 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Leibovich
Keyword(s):  
Surface Waves ◽  
Convective Instability ◽  
Normal Modes ◽  
Present Theory ◽  
Theoretical Description ◽  
Density Stratification ◽  
Unstable Region ◽  
Random Surface ◽  
Waves And Currents ◽  
Surface Wave Field

A recent theoretical description of interactions between surface waves and currents in the ocean is extended to allow density stratification. The interaction leads to a convective instability even when the density stratification is statically stable. An unspecified random surface wave field is permitted provided that it is statistically stationary.The instability can be traced to torques produced by variations of a ‘vortex force’. Non-diffusive instabilities produced by this mechanism in water of infinite depth are explored in detail for arbitrary distributions of the destabilizing force. Stability is determined by an eigenvalue problem formally identical to that determining normal modes of infinitesimal internal waves in fluid with a density profile that is not monotone and thereby has a statically unstable region. Some tentative remarks are offered about the problem when dissipation is allowed.Application of the present theory to Langmuir circulations is discussed. Also, according to the present theory, internal wave propagation should be modified by the vortex force arising from the interaction between the surface waves and the current.

Pulsed discharges produced by surface waves

1998 ◽  
Vol 08 (PR7) ◽  
pp. Pr7-317-Pr7-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. A. Ivanov ◽  
A. M. Gorbachev ◽  
V. A. Koldanov ◽  
A. L. Kolisko ◽  
A. L. Vikharev
Keyword(s):  
Surface Waves ◽  
Pulsed Discharges

RANDOM SURFACE ANISOTROPY AND THE MAGNETIZATION OF EPITAXIALLY GROWN THIN FILMS

1988 ◽  
Vol 49 (C8) ◽  
pp. C8-1695-C8-1696 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. Cullen ◽  
K. B. Hathaway
Keyword(s):  
Thin Films ◽  
Surface Anisotropy ◽  
Random Surface

Magnetoacoustic surface waves in magnetic crystals near spin-reorientation phase transitions

1997 ◽  
Vol 167 (7) ◽  
pp. 735-750 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yurii V. Gulyaev ◽  
Igor E. Dikshtein ◽  
Vladimir G. Shavrov
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transitions ◽  
Surface Waves ◽  
Spin Reorientation

The Role Of Surface Waves On The Upper Ocean: Application In Indonesian Seas

Jurnal Segara ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Tisiana Dwi Kuswardani ◽  
Fangli Qiao
Keyword(s):  
Surface Waves ◽  
Upper Ocean ◽  
Indonesian Seas
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