A new method to invert X-band radar images for linear shoaling conditions is proposed. The common... more A new method to invert X-band radar images for linear shoaling conditions is proposed. The commonly used approach for this type of inverse problems is the Fourier transform. Unlike in deep water conditions, in the shoaling region, waves are modulated both in terms of wavelength and amplitude. However, Fourier analysis assumes spacial and temporal periodicity, and homogeneity limiting its applicability to this region. In order to overcome these limitations, a wavelet based technique is developed. The proposed technique treats every spatial radar image within the time sequence individually, so no information on the dispersion relation is required. For validation purposes, surface elevation range-time shoaling realizations based on the mild slope equation are prepared. A radar imaging model including tilt and shadowing modulations, speckle noise, and the radar equation is applied to these realizations to provide modeled grazing incidence radar images. The inversion process starts with ...
Nonlinear interactions between sea waves and the sea bottom are a major mechanism for energy tran... more Nonlinear interactions between sea waves and the sea bottom are a major mechanism for energy transfer between the different wave frequencies in the near-shore region. Nevertheless, it is difficult to account for this phenomenon in stochastic wave forecasting models due to its mathematical complexity, which mostly consists of computing either the bispectral evolution or non-local shoaling coefficients. In this work, quasi-two-dimensional stochastic energy evolution equations are derived for dispersive water waves up to quadratic nonlinearity. The bispectral evolution equations are formulated using stochastic closure. They are solved analytically and substituted into the energy evolution equations to construct a stochastic model with non-local shoaling coefficients, which includes nonlinear dissipative effects and slow time evolution. The nonlinear shoaling mechanism is investigated and shown to present two different behaviour types. The first consists of a rapidly oscillating behavio...
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 2014
ABSTRACT The dynamics of internal gravity waves is modelled using WKB theory in position wavenumb... more ABSTRACT The dynamics of internal gravity waves is modelled using WKB theory in position wavenumber phase space. A transport equation for the phase-space wave-action density is derived for describing one-dimensional wave fields in a background with height-dependent stratification and height- and time-dependent horizontal-mean horizontal wind. The mean wind is coupled to the waves through the divergence of the mean vertical flux of horizontal momentum associated with the waves. The phase-space approach bypasses the caustics problem that occurs in WKB ray-tracing models when the wavenumber becomes a multivalued function of position, such as in the case of a wave packet encountering a reflecting jet or in the presence of a time-dependent background flow. Two numerical models were developed to solve the coupled equations for the wave-action density and horizontal mean wind: an Eulerian model using a finite-volume method, and a Lagrangian “phase-space ray tracer” that transports wave-action density along phase-space paths determined by the classical WKB ray equations for position and wavenumber. The models are used to simulate the upward propagation of a Gaussian wave packet through a variable stratification, a wind jet, and the mean flow induced by the waves. Results from the WKB models are in good agreement with simulations using a weakly nonlinear wave-resolving model as well as with a fully nonlinear large-eddy-simulation model. The work is a step toward more realistic parameterizations of atmospheric gravity waves in weather and climate models.
ABSTRACT A second-order nonlinear frequency-domain model extending the linear complementary mild-... more ABSTRACT A second-order nonlinear frequency-domain model extending the linear complementary mild-slope equation (CMSE) is presented. The nonlinear model uses the same streamfunction formulation as the CMSE. This allows the vertical profile assumption to accurately satisfy the kinematic bottom boundary condition in the case of nonlinear triad interactions as well as for the linear refraction–diffraction part. The result is a model with higher accuracy of wave–bottom interactions including wave–wave interaction. The model's validity is confirmed by comparison with accurate numerical models, laboratory experiments over submerged obstacles and analytical perturbation solutions for class III Bragg resonance.
A new method to invert X-band radar images for linear shoaling conditions is proposed. The common... more A new method to invert X-band radar images for linear shoaling conditions is proposed. The commonly used approach for this type of inverse problems is the Fourier transform. Unlike in deep water conditions, in the shoaling region, waves are modulated both in terms of wavelength and amplitude. However, Fourier analysis assumes spacial and temporal periodicity, and homogeneity limiting its applicability to this region. In order to overcome these limitations, a wavelet based technique is developed. The proposed technique treats every spatial radar image within the time sequence individually, so no information on the dispersion relation is required. For validation purposes, surface elevation range-time shoaling realizations based on the mild slope equation are prepared. A radar imaging model including tilt and shadowing modulations, speckle noise, and the radar equation is applied to these realizations to provide modeled grazing incidence radar images. The inversion process starts with ...
Nonlinear interactions between sea waves and the sea bottom are a major mechanism for energy tran... more Nonlinear interactions between sea waves and the sea bottom are a major mechanism for energy transfer between the different wave frequencies in the near-shore region. Nevertheless, it is difficult to account for this phenomenon in stochastic wave forecasting models due to its mathematical complexity, which mostly consists of computing either the bispectral evolution or non-local shoaling coefficients. In this work, quasi-two-dimensional stochastic energy evolution equations are derived for dispersive water waves up to quadratic nonlinearity. The bispectral evolution equations are formulated using stochastic closure. They are solved analytically and substituted into the energy evolution equations to construct a stochastic model with non-local shoaling coefficients, which includes nonlinear dissipative effects and slow time evolution. The nonlinear shoaling mechanism is investigated and shown to present two different behaviour types. The first consists of a rapidly oscillating behavio...
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 2014
ABSTRACT The dynamics of internal gravity waves is modelled using WKB theory in position wavenumb... more ABSTRACT The dynamics of internal gravity waves is modelled using WKB theory in position wavenumber phase space. A transport equation for the phase-space wave-action density is derived for describing one-dimensional wave fields in a background with height-dependent stratification and height- and time-dependent horizontal-mean horizontal wind. The mean wind is coupled to the waves through the divergence of the mean vertical flux of horizontal momentum associated with the waves. The phase-space approach bypasses the caustics problem that occurs in WKB ray-tracing models when the wavenumber becomes a multivalued function of position, such as in the case of a wave packet encountering a reflecting jet or in the presence of a time-dependent background flow. Two numerical models were developed to solve the coupled equations for the wave-action density and horizontal mean wind: an Eulerian model using a finite-volume method, and a Lagrangian “phase-space ray tracer” that transports wave-action density along phase-space paths determined by the classical WKB ray equations for position and wavenumber. The models are used to simulate the upward propagation of a Gaussian wave packet through a variable stratification, a wind jet, and the mean flow induced by the waves. Results from the WKB models are in good agreement with simulations using a weakly nonlinear wave-resolving model as well as with a fully nonlinear large-eddy-simulation model. The work is a step toward more realistic parameterizations of atmospheric gravity waves in weather and climate models.
ABSTRACT A second-order nonlinear frequency-domain model extending the linear complementary mild-... more ABSTRACT A second-order nonlinear frequency-domain model extending the linear complementary mild-slope equation (CMSE) is presented. The nonlinear model uses the same streamfunction formulation as the CMSE. This allows the vertical profile assumption to accurately satisfy the kinematic bottom boundary condition in the case of nonlinear triad interactions as well as for the linear refraction–diffraction part. The result is a model with higher accuracy of wave–bottom interactions including wave–wave interaction. The model's validity is confirmed by comparison with accurate numerical models, laboratory experiments over submerged obstacles and analytical perturbation solutions for class III Bragg resonance.
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