Low‐frequency rolloff in the response of shallow‐water channels

1986 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. W. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Shallow Water ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Water Channels

Radio and Electrical Measurements on Glacial Streams

1987 ◽  
Vol 33 (114) ◽  
pp. 239-242
Author(s):  
M. E. R. Walford
Keyword(s):  
Electrical Conductivity ◽  
Water Channel ◽  
Water System ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Water Channels ◽  
Radiative Loss ◽  
Radio Waves ◽  
Electrical Measurements ◽  
Water Conductivity ◽  
Glacier Surface

AbstractWe discuss the suggestion that small underwater transmitters might be used to illuminate the interior of major englacial water channels with radio waves. Once launched, the radio waves would naturally tend to be guided along the channels until attenuated by absorption and by radiative loss. Receivers placed within the channels or at the glacier surface could be used to detect the signals. They would provide valuable information about the connectivity of the water system. The electrical conductivity of the water is of crucial importance. A surface stream on Storglaciären, in Sweden, was found, using a low-frequency technique, to have a conductivity of approximately 4 × 10−4 S m−1. Although this is several hundred times higher than the conductivity of the surrounding glacier ice, the contrast is not sufficient to permit us simply to use electrical conductivity measurements to establish the connectivity of englacial water channels. However, the water conductivity is sufficiently small that, under favourable circumstances, radio signals should be detectable after travelling as much as a few hundred metres along an englacial water channel. In a preliminary field experiment, we demonstrated semi quantitatively that radio waves do indeed propagate as expected, at least in surface streams. We conclude that under-water radio transmitters could be of real practical value in the study of the englacial water system, provided that sufficiently robust devices can be constructed. In a subglacial channel, however, we expect the radio range would be much smaller, the environment much harsher, and the technique of less practical value.

Low-frequency bottom reverberation in shallow-water ocean regions

2004 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. A. Grigor’ev ◽  
V. M. Kuz’kin ◽  
B. G. Petnikov
Keyword(s):  
Shallow Water ◽  
Low Frequency

scholarly journals Low‐frequency bottom scattering strengths for a shallow water site in the Gulf of Mexico

1993 ◽  
Vol 93 (4) ◽  
pp. 2395-2395
Author(s):  
Peter G. Cable ◽  
Theo Kooij ◽  
Mike Steele
Keyword(s):  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Shallow Water ◽  
Low Frequency

Low Frequency Wind Generated Ambient Noise in Shallow Water

1988 ◽  
pp. 273-280
Author(s):  
Henrik Schmidt ◽  
Tuncay Akal ◽  
W. A. Kuperman
Keyword(s):  
Shallow Water ◽  
Ambient Noise ◽  
Low Frequency

scholarly journals Propagation properties of Rossby waves for latitudinal β-plane variations of <I>f</I> and zonal variations of the shallow water speed

2012 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 849-855 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. T. Duba ◽  
J. F. McKenzie
Keyword(s):  
Shallow Water ◽  
Group Velocity ◽  
Rossby Wave ◽  
Rossby Waves ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Wave Number ◽  
Coriolis Parameter ◽  
Propagation Properties ◽  
Wave Normal ◽  
Water Speed

Abstract. Using the shallow water equations for a rotating layer of fluid, the wave and dispersion equations for Rossby waves are developed for the cases of both the standard β-plane approximation for the latitudinal variation of the Coriolis parameter f and a zonal variation of the shallow water speed. It is well known that the wave normal diagram for the standard (mid-latitude) Rossby wave on a β-plane is a circle in wave number (ky,kx) space, whose centre is displaced −β/2 ω units along the negative kx axis, and whose radius is less than this displacement, which means that phase propagation is entirely westward. This form of anisotropy (arising from the latitudinal y variation of f), combined with the highly dispersive nature of the wave, gives rise to a group velocity diagram which permits eastward as well as westward propagation. It is shown that the group velocity diagram is an ellipse, whose centre is displaced westward, and whose major and minor axes give the maximum westward, eastward and northward (southward) group speeds as functions of the frequency and a parameter m which measures the ratio of the low frequency-long wavelength Rossby wave speed to the shallow water speed. We believe these properties of group velocity diagram have not been elucidated in this way before. We present a similar derivation of the wave normal diagram and its associated group velocity curve for the case of a zonal (x) variation of the shallow water speed, which may arise when the depth of an ocean varies zonally from a continental shelf.

Horizontal coherence of low-frequency shallow water signals

2007 ◽  
Vol 122 (5) ◽  
pp. 3005
Author(s):  
Jon M. Collis ◽  
Timothy F. Duda ◽  
James F. Lynch ◽  
Arthur E. Newhall ◽  
Keith von der Heydt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Shallow Water ◽  
Low Frequency
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