The Ocean Surface: Wave Breaking, Turbulent Mixing and Radio Probing

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
A New Way to Calculate Steep Gravity Waves....Pages 1-15
Nonlinear Water Wave Theory Via Pressure Formulation....Pages 17-24
Particle Trajectories in Nonlinear Capillary Waves....Pages 25-30
Wave Breaking and Nonlinear Instability Coupling....Pages 31-38
Stability of a Random Inhomogeneous Field of Weakly Nonlinear Surface Gravity Waves with Application to the JONSWAP Study....Pages 39-49
Initial Instability and Long-Time Evolution of Stokes Waves....Pages 51-57
On Non-Linear Water Wave Groups and the Induced Mean Flow....Pages 59-64
Numerical and Experimental Analysis of Nonlinear Deformation of Ocean Waves on 2-D and 3-D Sandbars....Pages 65-70
On the Growth of Gravity-Capillary Waves by Wind....Pages 71-75
Nonlinear Waves in a Developing Process....Pages 77-86
The Effect of Short Waves on the Transfer of Wind Momentum to Long Water Waves....Pages 87-94
Measurements of Atmospheric Pressure over Surface Gravity Waves during KonTur....Pages 95-97
Atmospheric Stability Effects on the Growth of Surface Gravity Waves....Pages 99-104
New Aspects of the Turbulent Boundary Layer over Wind Waves....Pages 105-110
Spectral Characteristics of Breaking Waves....Pages 111-123
The Fully Developed Wind-Sea Spectrum as a Solution of the Energy Balance Equation....Pages 125-128
The Kinematics of Short Wave Modulation by Long Waves....Pages 129-134
The Effect of Surface Contamination on the Drift Velocity of Water Waves....Pages 135-143
Mathematical Modeling of Breaking Wave Statistics....Pages 145-150
Numerical Modeling of Current-Wave Interaction....Pages 151-159
Measurement and Analysis of Surface Waves in A Strong Current....Pages 161-169
In Search of Universal Parametric Correlations for Wind Waves....Pages 171-178
Sea-State Cycles....Pages 179-184
On the Effect of Bottom Friction on Wind Sea....Pages 185-192
A Parametric Wind Wave Model for Arbitrary Water Depths....Pages 193-199
Shallow Water Intercomparison of Wave Models — Part I Three Different Concepts to Model Surface Waves in Finite Water Depth....Pages 201-205
Shallow Water Intercomparison of Wave Models — Part II Results of Three Different Wave Models for Idealized Wind and Depth Situations....Pages 207-214
Shallow Water Intercomparison of Wave Models — Part III....Pages 215-220
A Coupled Discrete Wave Model MRI-II....Pages 221-226
The TOHOKU-II Wave Model....Pages 227-232
Microwave Sensing of the Ocean Surface....Pages 233-244
On the Hydrodynamics of Small-Scale Breaking Waves and Their Microwave Reflectivity Properties....Pages 245-248
The Nature of Microwave Backscattering from Water Waves....Pages 249-256
The Wave Field Dynamics Inferred from HF Radar Sea-Echo....Pages 257-262
Doppler Spectra of Microwave Radar Echo Returned from Calm and Rough Sea Surfaces....Pages 263-268
Measurements of Directional Sea Wave Spectra Using a Two-Frequency Microwave Scatterometer....Pages 269-274
Measurements of Ocean Wave Spectra and Modulation Transfer Function with the Airborne Two Frequency Scatterometer....Pages 275-282
An Algorithm of Microwave Backscattering from a Perturbed Sea Surface....Pages 283-288
The Dependence of the Microwave Radar Cross Section on the Air-Sea Interaction and the Wave Slope....Pages 289-296
Preliminary Results of Dual Polarized Radar Sea Scatter....Pages 297-302
SLAR and In-Situ Observations of Wave-Current Interaction on the Columbia River Bar....Pages 303-310
On the Effects of Ocean Surface Roughness on Emissivity and Reflectivity of Microwave Radiation....Pages 311-318
Experimental Results of Sea-Surface Scattering by Airborne Microwave Scatterometer/Radiometer....Pages 319-327
Radio Probing of Ocean Surface by Observing Multipath Fading Signal....Pages 329-334
Effect of Wave-Current Interaction on the Determination of Volume Scattering Function of Microwave at Sea Surface....Pages 335-344
Surface Ocean Circulation and Variability Determined from Satellite Altimetry....Pages 345-350
Application of the Seasat Altimeter Data for Estimations of Sea Surface Height and Ocean Tide in the Northwest Pacific Ocean....Pages 351-356
MIROS — A Microwave Remote Sensor for the Ocean Surface....Pages 357-360
The Design of Spaceborne Microwave Scatterometer....Pages 361-368
On-Board Processing of Microwave Altimeter....Pages 369-377
Simulation of Wind-Vector Estimation — Design Evaluation of Microwave Scatterometer -....Pages 379-387
Wind Waves and Wind-Generated Turbulence in the Water....Pages 389-394
The Vertical Structure of Turbulence Beneath Gently Breaking Wind Waves....Pages 395-400
Wind-Induced Water Turbulence....Pages 401-406
The Structure of the Boundary Layer under Wind Waves....Pages 407-412
Wave Breaking, Turbulence and Mixing....Pages 413-418
Experimental Study on Turbulence Structures under Spilling Breakers....Pages 419-424
Experimental Study on Wind Driven Current in a Wind-Wave Tank....Pages 425-430
Observed Statistics of Breaking Ocean Waves....Pages 431-436
Turbulence Below Wind Waves....Pages 437-442
Reynolds Stresses....Pages 443-448
Effects of the Rotation on the Entrainment by Grid-Generated Turbulence in Stratified Fluids....Pages 449-456
Dynamics of Langmuir Circulations in a Stratified Ocean....Pages 457-464
The Interaction of Crossed Waves and Wind-Induced Currents in a Laboratory Tank....Pages 465-470
Numerical Modelling of Langmuir Circulation and Its Application....Pages 471-477
Some Dynamic Features of Langmuir Circulation....Pages 479-486
Mixed Layer and Ekman Current Response to Solar Heating....Pages 487-507
An Oceanic Mixed Layer Model Suitable for Climatological Studies Results over Several Years of Simulation....Pages 509-516
Response of the Upper Ocean to Atmospheric Forcing....Pages 517-524
Estimation of Solar Radiation at Sea....Pages 525-533
Critical Examination of Various Estimation Methods of Long-Term Mean Air-Sea Heat and Momentum Transfer....Pages 535-540
Mixed-Layer Growth in Stratified Fluids....Pages 541-546
The Use and Testing of a Model for Upper Ocean Dynamics....Pages 547-552
Vertical Mixing on the Bering Sea Shelf....Pages 553-557
Surface Mixed Layer Observation Using a Meteo-Oceanographic Spar Buoy, XTGP and SEMVP System....Pages 559-564
Detailed Structure of the Surface Layer in the Frontal Zone between the Kuroshio and Oyashio Water....Pages 565-570
Horizontal Processes Involved in the Formation of Sea Surface Temperature Near a Western Boundary Current....Pages 571-576
Back Matter....Pages 577-586