Interactive sonification can provide a platform for demonstration and education as well as monitoring and investigation. We present a system designed to demonstrate the facilities of the UK’s most advanced large-scale research wave tank. The interactive sonification of water waves in the 'ocean basin' wave tank at Plymouth University consisted of a number of elements: ocean wave generation, acq...

Research toward the development of point absorber ocean wave energy converters (WEC) is migrating from energy absorption of ocean wave heave only, to the absorption of heave and surge. Due to the additional dimension of surge, the mathematic relationship between the ocean waves and the WEC has shifted from a linear model to a nonlinear model. This change has made back driven wave height from de...

6 Recent studies attribute land double-frequency (DF) microseism observations to deep7 water generation. Here we show that near-coastal generation is generally the dominant 8 source region. This determination is based on observations at land and ocean seismic 9 stations, buoys, gravity wave hindcasts, and on beamforming results from continental 10 seismic arrays. Interactions between opposing o...

This is a personal contemplation on the state of ocean wave measurement, historically, and with an eye toward the future. The conceptual basis which leads to the conventional wave measuring instruments has been in practice for over six decades which is basically single point observations of three-dimensional waves. We need new conceptual advancement and new instrumentation to rejuvenate our res...

This article describes the 11-year wave simulation (1992-2002) in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman using the input data derived from European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). The ECMWF 10 meter wind field and spectral wave boundary condition at 18 ْN degree are input into one of the latest versions of numerical wave models (3rd generation) after a few local modifications. ...

Ocean wave height is one of the critical factors to decide efficiency ocean energy conversion system. Usually, only when resonate occurs between (ocean speed in vertical direction) and system, can from into electric be maximized. Therefore, this paper proposes two predication methods predict future 1.5–2.5 s. Firstly, data fitting real achieved by polynomial method, which beneficial height. Sec...

Oceanic microseisms are generated by the interaction of opposing ocean waves and subsequent coupling with the seabed, so microseisms should contain information on the ocean conditions that generated them. This leads to the possibility of using seismic records as a proxy for the ocean gravity wavefield. Here we investigate the P-wave component of microseisms, which has previously been linked to ...

In this work we study analytically and numerically the performance of the mean heave motion of an OWC coupled with the governing equation of the spreading ocean waves due to the wide variation in an open parabolic channel with constant depth. This paper considers that the ocean wave propagation is under the assumption of a shallow flow condition. In order to verify the effect of the waves in th...

Introduction: A team of NRL scientists from the Marine Meteorology and Oceanography Divisions has successfully transformed the one-way air–ocean Coupled Ocean/Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System (COAMPS®*) into a six-way fully coupled air–ocean– wave weather and marine forecasting system. This was accomplished using the state-of-the-art Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF), making COAMPS t...

[1] Comparison of ocean buoy measurements with infrasonic array data collected during the epic winter of 2002–2003 shows a clear relationship between breaking ocean wave height and infrasonic signal levels. In addition, infrasonic arrays allow the identification of distinct breaking zones along the shoreline. Our observations suggest that infrasonic measurements can be used in conjunction with ...