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| Jiang, Haoyu; Mouche, Alexis; Wang, He; Babanin, Alexander V.; Chapron, Bertrand; Chen, Ge. |
| Numerical wave models are powerful tools for investigating global wave climate. Here a global wave hindcast is employed to estimate the global pattern of crossing swells. However, the global patterns of crossing swells derived from the model are different from those derived from the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) wave mode products of quasi-linear inversion, indicating one of them is questionable. The comparison shows that the first two most energetic swells inversed by SAR are often not in accordance with the first two most energetic swells in the model, and this will have a large impact on the statistics of the data. Before this problem is solved, SAR wave products of quasi-linear inversion should be treated with care in wave climate studies. |
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Palavras-chave: Synthetic aperture radar; Quasi-linear inversion; Crossing swells; Wave climate. |
| Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00369/47979/48003.pdf |
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| Stopa, Justin; Ardhuin, Fabrice; Husson, Romain; Jiang, Haoyu; Chapron, Bertrand; Collard, Fabrice. |
| Swells are found in all oceans and strongly influence the wave climate and air-sea processes. The poorly known swell dissipation is the largest source of error in wave forecasts and hindcasts. We use synthetic aperture radar data to identify swell sources and trajectories, allowing a statistically significant estimation of swell dissipation. We mined the entire Envisat mission 2003–2012 to find suitable storms with swells (13 < T < 18 s) that are observed several times along their propagation. This database of swell events provides a comprehensive view of swell extending previous efforts. The analysis reveals that swell dissipation weakly correlates with the wave steepness, wind speed, orbital wave velocity, and the relative direction of wind and... |
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| Ano: 2016 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00324/43534/43079.pdf |
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| Jiang, Haoyu; Stopa, Justin; Wang, He; Husson, Romain; Mouche, Alexis; Chapron, Bertrand; Chen, Ge. |
| A method for systematically tracking swells across oceanic basins is developed by taking advantage of high-quality data from space-borne altimeters and wave model output. The evolution of swells is observed over large distances based on 202 swell events with periods ranging from 12 to 18 s. An empirical attenuation rate of swell energy of about 4 × 10−7 m−1 is estimated using these observations, and the nonbreaking energy dissipation rates of swells far away from their generating areas are also estimated using a point source model. The resulting acceptance range of nonbreaking dissipation rates is −2.5 to 5.0 × 10−7 m−1, which corresponds to a dissipation e-folding scales of at least 2000 km for steep swells, to almost infinite for small-amplitude swells.... |
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Palavras-chave: Altimeter; Swell dissipation; Swell tracking. |
| Ano: 2016 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00314/42526/41897.pdf |
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