Transports and Net Fluxes of Surface Wave Energy and Momentum inside Tropical Cyclones: Spectrum Computation and Modeling

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (11) ◽  
pp. 3309-3329
Author(s):  
Paul A. Hwang
Keyword(s):  
Surface Wave ◽  
Tropical Cyclones ◽  
Wave Energy ◽  
Harmonic Series ◽  
Wave Spectra ◽  
Parallel Channel ◽  
Local Wind ◽  
Energy And Momentum ◽  
The Right ◽  
Net Fluxes

AbstractTransports and net fluxes of surface wave energy and momentum inside tropical cyclones (TCs) are analyzed with wave spectra acquired by hurricane hunters. Previous analyses of dominant wave properties show a primary feature of sinusoidal azimuthal variation. Transports calculated from directional wave spectra are also primarily sinusoidal, which is modeled as a harmonic series. The result reveals that forward transport peaks are in the right-front quarter relative to the TC heading, and somewhat weaker valleys of backward transports are in the left-back quarter. Rightward transport peaks are in the right-back quarter and stronger leftward transport valleys are in the left-front quarter. Net fluxes are derived analytically from the gradients of transports. Their azimuthal variations are primarily biharmonic with forward trend confined in a slightly left-tilted parallel channel about a width two to three radius of maximum wind (RMW) on each side of the TC center. Leftward net fluxes are in a parallel channel of similar size and normal to that of the forward net fluxes. In vectors, the right-back quarter is a region of net influxes of energy and momentum. The TC central region has strong local fluxes that lead to bifurcation of the flux lines into leftward and forward paths. This may play a role in stabilizing the TC propagation. The net fluxes are a small fraction of the expected energy and momentum inputs from local wind except near the eye region. Within about 30 km from the TC center the local wind speed may exceed 30 m s−1 and the net fluxes can exceed 50% of the expected local wind input.

scholarly journals Wave Glider Observations of Surface Waves During Three Tropical Cyclones in the South China Sea

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 1331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Di Tian ◽  
Han Zhang ◽  
Wenyan Zhang ◽  
Feng Zhou ◽  
Xiujun Sun ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Surface Wave ◽  
South China Sea ◽  
Surface Waves ◽  
Tropical Cyclones ◽  
South China ◽  
Tangential Direction ◽  
China Sea ◽  
Wave Forecast ◽  
Wave Glider ◽  
The Right

Surface waves induced by tropical cyclones (TCs) play an important role in the air–sea interaction, yet are seldom observed. In the 2017 summer, a wave glider in the northern South China Sea successfully acquired the surface wave parameters when three TCs (Hato, Pakhar, and Mawar) passed though successively. During the three TCs, surface wave period increased from 4–6 s to ~8–10 s and surface wave height increased from 0–1 m to 3–8 m. The number of wave crests observed in a time interval of 1024 s decreased from 100–150 to 60–75. The sea surface roughness, a key factor in determining the momentum transfer between air and sea, increased rapidly during Hato, Pakhar, and Mawar. Surface waves rotated clockwise (anti-clockwise) on the right (left) side of the TC track, and generally propagated to the right side of the local cyclonic tangential direction relative to the TC center. The azimuthal dependence of the wave propagation direction is close to sinusoidal in a region within 50–600 km. The intersection angle between surface wave direction and the local cyclonic tangential direction is generally smallest in the right-rear quadrant of the TC and tends to be largest in the left-rear quadrant. This new set of glider wave observational data proves to be useful for assessing wave forecast products and for improvements in corresponding parameterization schemes.

scholarly journals The Effect of Wind–Wave–Current Interaction on Air–Sea Momentum Fluxes and Ocean Response in Tropical Cyclones

2009 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 1019-1034 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yalin Fan ◽  
Isaac Ginis ◽  
Tetsu Hara
Keyword(s):  
Surface Wave ◽  
Wave Field ◽  
Tropical Cyclones ◽  
Momentum Flux ◽  
Wind Wave ◽  
Wave Spectrum ◽  
Peak Frequency ◽  
Current Interaction ◽  
Subsurface Current ◽  
The Right

Abstract In this paper, the wind–wave–current interaction mechanisms in tropical cyclones and their effect on the surface wave and ocean responses are investigated through a set of numerical experiments. The key element of the authors’ modeling approach is the air–sea interface model, which consists of a wave boundary layer model and an air–sea momentum flux budget model. The results show that the time and spatial variations in the surface wave field, as well as the wave–current interaction, significantly reduce momentum flux into the currents in the right rear quadrant of the hurricane. The reduction of the momentum flux into the ocean consequently reduces the magnitude of the subsurface current and sea surface temperature cooling to the right of the hurricane track and the rate of upwelling/downwelling in the thermocline. During wind–wave–current interaction, the momentum flux into the ocean is mainly affected by reducing the wind speed relative to currents, whereas the wave field is mostly affected by refraction due to the spatially varying currents. In the area where the current is strongly and roughly aligned with wave propagation direction, the wave spectrum of longer waves is reduced, the peak frequency is shifted to a higher frequency, and the angular distribution of the wave energy is widened.

scholarly journals Sea Surface Salinity Response to Tropical Cyclones Based on Satellite Observations

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 420
Author(s):  
Jingru Sun ◽  
Gabriel Vecchi ◽  
Brian Soden
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Cyclones ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Sea Surface Salinity ◽  
Surface Salinity ◽  
Translation Speed ◽  
Salinity Stratification ◽  
Left Hand ◽  
In Situ Data ◽  
Salinity Response ◽  
The Right

Multi-year records of satellite remote sensing of sea surface salinity (SSS) provide an opportunity to investigate the climatological characteristics of the SSS response to tropical cyclones (TCs). In this study, the influence of TC winds, rainfall and preexisting ocean stratification on SSS evolution is examined with multiple satellite-based and in-situ data. Global storm-centered composites indicate that TCs act to initially freshen the ocean surface (due to precipitation), and subsequently salinify the surface, largely through vertical ocean processes (mixing and upwelling), although regional hydrography can lead to local departure from this behavior. On average, on the day a TC passes, a strong SSS decrease is observed. The fresh anomaly is subsequently replaced by a net surface salinification, which persists for weeks. This salinification is larger on the right (left)-hand side of the storm motion in the Northern (Southern) Hemisphere, consistent with the location of stronger turbulent mixing. The influence of TC intensity and translation speed on the ocean response is also examined. Despite having greater precipitation, stronger TCs tend to produce longer-lasting, stronger and deeper salinification especially on the right-hand side of the storm motion. Faster moving TCs are found to have slightly weaker freshening with larger area coverage during the passage, but comparable salinification after the passage. The ocean haline response in four basins with different climatological salinity stratification reveals a significant impact of vertical stratification on the salinity response during and after the passage of TCs.

Inversion of regional surface-wave spectra for source parameters of aftershocks from the 1992 Petrolia earthquake sequence

1995 ◽  
Vol 85 (3) ◽  
pp. 705-715
Author(s):  
Mark Andrew Tinker ◽  
Susan L. Beck
Keyword(s):  
Surface Wave ◽  
Focal Mechanism ◽  
Source Parameters ◽  
Strike Slip ◽  
Earthquake Sequence ◽  
Fault System ◽  
Accretionary Wedge ◽  
Wave Spectra ◽  
The North ◽  
Gorda Plate

Abstract Regional distance surface waves are used to study the source parameters for moderate-size aftershocks of the 25 April 1992 Petrolia earthquake sequence. The Cascadia subduction zone had been relatively seismically inactive until the onset of the mainshock (Ms = 7.1). This underthrusting event establishes that the southern end of the North America-Gorda plate boundary is seismogenic. It was followed by two separate and distinct large aftershocks (Ms = 6.6 for both) occurring at 07:41 and 11:41 on 26 April, as well as thousands of other small aftershocks. Many of the aftershocks following the second large aftershock had magnitudes in the range of 4.0 to 5.5. Using intermediate-period surface-wave spectra, we estimate focal mechanisms and depths for one foreshock and six of the larger aftershocks (Md = 4.0 to 5.5). These seven events can be separated into two groups based on temporal, spatial, and principal stress orientation characteristics. Within two days of the mainshock, four aftershocks (Md = 4 to 5) occurred within 4 hr of each other that were located offshore and along the Mendocino fault. These four aftershocks comprise one group. They are shallow, thrust events with northeast-trending P axes. We interpret these aftershocks to represent internal compression within the North American accretionary prism as a result of Gorda plate subduction. The other three events compose the second group. The shallow, strike-slip mechanism determined for the 8 March foreshock (Md = 5.3) may reflect the right-lateral strike-slip motion associated with the interaction between the northern terminus of the San Andreas fault system and the eastern terminus of the Mendocino fault. The 10 May aftershock (Md = 4.1), located on the coast and north of the Mendocino triple junction, has a thrust fault focal mechanism. This event is shallow and probably occurred within the accretionary wedge on an imbricate thrust. A normal fault focal mechanism is obtained for the 5 June aftershock (Md = 4.8), located offshore and just north of the Mendocino fault. This event exhibits a large component of normal motion, representing internal failure within a rebounding accretionary wedge. These two aftershocks and the foreshock have dissimilar locations in space and time, but they do share a north-northwest oriented P axis.

scholarly journals Nature itself in a mirror space–time

2015 ◽  
Vol 93 (10) ◽  
pp. 1005-1008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rasulkhozha S. Sharafiddinov
Keyword(s):  
Dirac Equation ◽  
Minkowski Space ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Classical Solutions ◽  
Left Handed ◽  
Minkowski Space Time ◽  
Energy And Momentum ◽  
The Right ◽  
Structure Of Matter

The unity of the structure of matter fields with flavor symmetry laws involves that the left-handed neutrino in the field of emission can be converted into a right-handed one and vice versa. These transitions together with classical solutions of the Dirac equation testify in favor of the unidenticality of masses, energies, and momenta of neutrinos of the different components. If we recognize such a difference in masses, energies, and momenta, accepting its ideas about that the left-handed neutrino and the right-handed antineutrino refer to long-lived leptons, and the right-handed neutrino and the left-handed antineutrino are short-lived fermions, we would follow the mathematical logic of the Dirac equation in the presence of the flavor symmetrical mass, energy, and momentum matrices. From their point of view, nature itself separates Minkowski space into left and right spaces concerning a certain middle dynamical line. Thereby, it characterizes any Dirac particle both by left and by right space–time coordinates. It is not excluded therefore that whatever the main purposes each of earlier experiments about sterile neutrinos, namely, about right-handed short-lived neutrinos may serve as the source of facts confirming the existence of a mirror Minkowski space–time.

scholarly journals Nonlinear wave energy modelling in the surf zone

1996 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Th. V. Karambas
Keyword(s):  
Wave Energy ◽  
Surf Zone ◽  
Energy Balance Equation ◽  
Propagation Model ◽  
Breaking Wave ◽  
Dissipation Term ◽  
Energy Modelling ◽  
Turbulence Effects ◽  
Energy And Momentum ◽  
Energy Equations

Abstract. Breaking wave energy in the surf zone is modelled through the incorporation of the time dependent energy balance equation in a non linear dispersive wave propagation model. The energy equations solved simultaneously with the momentum and continuity equation. Turbulence effects and the non uniform horizontal velocity distribution due to breaking is introduced in both the energy and momentum equations. The dissipation term is a function of the velocity defect derived from a turbulent analysis. The resulting system predicts both wave characteristics (surface elevation and velocity) and the energy distribution inside surf zone. The model is validated against experimental data and analytical expressions.

scholarly journals The comparative analysis of 2018 Alaska earthquakes from surface wave records

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-84
Author(s):  
Anastasiya Fomochkina ◽  
Boris Bukchin
Keyword(s):  
Surface Wave ◽  
Focal Mechanism ◽  
Seismic Moment ◽  
Optimal Solution ◽  
Seismic Source ◽  
P Wave ◽  
Wave Spectra ◽  
Earthquake Intensity ◽  
Second Moments ◽  
First Arrival

We consider the source of an earthquake in an approximation of instant point shift dislocation. Such a source is given by its depth, the focal mechanism determined by three angles (strike, dip, and slip), and the seismic moment characterizing the earthquake intensity. We determine the source depth and focal mechanism by a systematic exploration of 4D parametric space, and seismic moment - by solving the problem of minimization of the misfit between observed and calculated surface wave spectra for every combination of all other parameters. As is well known, the focal mechanism cannot be uniquely determined from the surface wave’s amplitude spectra only. We used P-wave first arrival polarities to select the optimal solution. Ana-lyzing the surface wave spectra at shorter periods, we describe the source in an approximation of the stress glut second moments. Using these moments we determine integral estimates of the geometry, the duration of the seismic source, and rupture propagation. The results of the application of this technique for two Alaska earthquakes that occurred in 2018 (with Mw7.9 in January and with Mw7.1 in November) are presented. The possibility of the fault plane identification, which based on the obtained estimates of the focal mechanisms and second mo-ments, is analyzed for both events. Bilateral model of the source is constructed.

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