Wind-Wave Breaking

High Wind and Breaking Wave Measurements with Sar Depolarized Returns

The wind generates a distribution of small slope waves and sporadic steep breaking events. Such double structure of the sea surface is expected to have a strong impact on the radar scattering from the ocean surface. The signature of the double structure is in the wind speed dependence of radar returns: linear for scattering from gentle waves and cubic for breaking contribution. The composite-su...

Multiscale Deterministic Wave Modeling with Wind Input and Wave Breaking Dissipation

The primary focus of this research is to use large-eddy simulation (LES) and large-wave simulation (LWS) to obtain improved physical understanding of wind-wave-ocean interactions, based on which we aim to develop effective models of wind input and whitecapping dissipation for phase-resolving, nonlinear wave-field simulation at large scales. Our ultimate goal is to establish a numerical capabili...

Ion wave breaking acceleration

B. Liu, J. Meyer-ter-Vehn, K-U. Bamberg, W. J. Ma, J. Liu, X. T. He, X. Q. Yan, and H. Ruhl Institute for Computational and Plasma Physics, Ludwig-Maximilian-Universitaet, 80333 Muenchen, Germany Key Laboratory of HEDP of the Ministry of Education, CAPT, and State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China Institute of Applied Physics and Computat...

Breaking Wave Velocity Estimation

Using wavelet spectrum analysis to resolve breaking events in the wind wave time series

This paper presents the development of a new approach, based on wavelet spectrum analysis, for the detection of breaking waves in a time series of surface wave fluctuations. The approach is shown to be capable of producing equivalent wave breaking statistics as field measurements based on detection of whitecaps at a fixed point of observation. This wavelet-based approach is applicable to both d...