Ocean Surface Waves: Their Physics And Prediction (2nd Edition)

Ocean Surface Waves: Their Physics And Prediction (2nd Edition)
Author: Stanislaw Ryszard Massel
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 690
Release: 2013-01-30
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9814460133

New Edition: Ocean Surface Waves: Their Physics and Prediction (3rd Edition)The book is an extended and updated edition of the book published in 1996 under the same title (World Scientific, ISBN 9810216866). It contains a very comprehensive and extensive study on surface ocean waves induced by wind, earthquakes and possible landslides and asteroids impacts. The basic mathematical principles, physical description of the observed phenomena, practical forecasting techniques of the various wave parameters and extended application in ocean and coastal engineering, are discussed from the stochastic point of view.All chapters were completely rewritten and supplemented with many new discoveries which were published since the first edition in 1996. In particular, new chapters are added on very interesting and contemporary topics such as: wave breaking mechanisms in deep- and shallow water, freak waves, tsunami, water circulation in porous sea bottom induced by surface waves, and waves propagation through mangrove forests.In terms of numerical modeling, the state of the art of the modern methodology of wave prediction models WAM and SWAN, as well as of the high sophisticated satellite methods of waves measurement and modern methods of signal processing, including wavelets approach and Hilbert Transform approach are presented. The book is supplemented with an extended list of relevant and extended, contemporary bibliography, subject index and author index.

The Applied Dynamics Of Ocean Surface Waves

The Applied Dynamics Of Ocean Surface Waves
Author: Mei Chiang C
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 768
Release: 1989-07-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9813104325

The aim of this book is to present selected theoretical topics on ocean wave dynamics, including basic principles and applications in coastal and offshore engineering, all from the deterministic point of view. The bulk of the material deals with the linearized theory.

Idealized Modeling Studies of Long-Lived Large Amplitude Inertia Gravity Waves

Idealized Modeling Studies of Long-Lived Large Amplitude Inertia Gravity Waves
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 12
Release: 1999
Genre:
ISBN:

AFOSR/ASSERT funds for FY-99 have been used in support of: (1) continuing research designed to elicit the three-dimensional structure and evolution of large-scale environments conducive to the formation and presence of long-lived large-amplitude inertia-gravity waves (IGW): (2)IGW case studies IGWs in support of (1); and (3) the preparation and submission of manuscripts describing previously completed research findings for formal publication (abstracts are attached elsewhere to this report). The results from (2) show that a significant mesoscale pressure disturbance passes through the Flatland Atmospheric Observatory just after 1600 UTC 28 April 1996. This originated over northeastern KS and is associated with the back edge of a stratiform rain region which extends north of mesoscale convective system. NCEP Reanalyses and NWS soundings show that this convective event occurs in a region with many characteristics of an inertia-gravity wave environment (see report for FYs 97 and 98). The 50 MHz profiler shows that the wave is associated with strong downward motion in the middle troposphere. It is hypothesized that this downward motion penetrates into the low-level stable layer creating substantial adiabatic warming and hence driving the pressure falls observed at the surface.

Ocean Surface Waves: Their Physics And Prediction (Third Edition)

Ocean Surface Waves: Their Physics And Prediction (Third Edition)
Author: Stanislaw Ryszard Massel
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 801
Release: 2017-09-28
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9813228393

This book is an extended and substantially updated edition of the previous book editions published in 1996 and 2013 under the same title. The 3rd edition is a one-volume, modern and comprehensive overview of the current knowledge of regular and random ocean surface waves in deep waters and in coastal zones.Since the previous editions many new theoretical advances have been made in the physical understanding and analytical and numerical treatment of various ocean wave problems. The revisions and supplements demanded by these advances have been substantial, therefore the scope of the book has been extended by adding a new chapter and substantially supplementing others.All chapters of the book have been rewritten to include and describe in detail many new discoveries made since the completion of the previous editions. In this 3rd edition a comprehensive and updated overview of the fundamentals of the regular wave mechanics, as well as the spectral and statistical properties of random waves are given. Except for the updated chapters dedicated to tsunami and extreme waves, a new chapter dealing with other types of impulsive waves starting from rest, are also included.The air-sea interaction processes as well as the last improvements in ocean wave modelling and presently available wave prediction models (WAM, WAVEWATCH III, UMWM, NEMO) are thoroughly discussed and their applications are demonstrated. The review of the present ocean observation methods encompasses the modern sea-truthing, as well as applications of data from presently operating marine satellites.In this revised edition, chapters on the behavior of surface waves in the vegetated environments such as coral reef, mangrove forest, seaweed and seagrass areas are substantially extended and updated to include the last discoveries.The explanations in the book are self-contained and detailed enough to capture the interest of the potential readers and to prompt them to explore the research literature. The list of rapidly growing number of the recent papers on the ocean waves has been extended substantially, up to about 900 titles.

Ocean Wave Modeling

Ocean Wave Modeling
Author: The SWAMP Group
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2013-11-22
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1475760558

Early in 1979, a group of wave researchers proposed a wave model inter comparison study to clarify the interrelations existing among the various wave models which have been developed in past years for real-time wave forecasting, wave statistics compilations, or hindcast case studies. The idea was immediately welcomed by the wave modeling community, and, finally, nine wave modeling groups from the United States, Japan, and Europe participated in the exercise. The principal results of this work are presented here jointly by the Sea Wave Modeling Project (swAMP) Group (the members of which are listed in Appendix A). Descriptions of the models used in the study are given in Part II of this volume. A more complete documentation of the entire set of numerical experiments is given in Part 2 of the Sea Wave Modeling Project (SWAMP group, 1982). The main purpose of the intercomparison study was to test our present understanding of the physics of . wind-generated surface waves from the viewpoint of wave modeling. Specifically, we wished to clarify the basic interdependence between understanding the physics of surface waves, repre senting the physics numerically, and predicting quantitatively the detailed space-time evolution of a two-dimensional surface wave spectrum for a given wind field. It was not our intent to carry out a model competition. In this sense there were no winners or losers: all models could claim specific strong points, and all displayed weaknesses in some areas.