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Statistics of Nonlinear Internal Waves during the Shallow Water 2006 Experiment

Mohsen Badiey College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware

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James F. Lynch Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts

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01 Apr 2016
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-15-0221.1
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839–846
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Abstract

During the Shallow Water Acoustic Experiment 2006 (SW06) conducted on the New Jersey continental shelf in the summer of 2006, detailed measurements of the ocean environment were made along a fixed reference track that was parallel to the continental shelf. The time-varying environment induced by nonlinear internal waves (NLIWs) was recorded by an array of moored thermistor chains and by X-band radars from the attending research vessels. Using a mapping technique, the three-dimensional (3D) temperature field for over a month of NLIW events is reconstructed and analyzed to provide a statistical summary of important NLIW parameters, such as the NLIW propagation speed, direction, and amplitude. The results in this paper can be used as a database for studying the NLIW generation, propagation, and fidelity of nonlinear internal wave models.

Supplemental information related to this paper is available at the Journals Online website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-15-0221.s1.

Corresponding author address: Mohsen Badiey, College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment, University of Delaware, 111 Robinson Hall, Newark, DE 19716. E-mail: badiey@udel.edu

Abstract

During the Shallow Water Acoustic Experiment 2006 (SW06) conducted on the New Jersey continental shelf in the summer of 2006, detailed measurements of the ocean environment were made along a fixed reference track that was parallel to the continental shelf. The time-varying environment induced by nonlinear internal waves (NLIWs) was recorded by an array of moored thermistor chains and by X-band radars from the attending research vessels. Using a mapping technique, the three-dimensional (3D) temperature field for over a month of NLIW events is reconstructed and analyzed to provide a statistical summary of important NLIW parameters, such as the NLIW propagation speed, direction, and amplitude. The results in this paper can be used as a database for studying the NLIW generation, propagation, and fidelity of nonlinear internal wave models.

Supplemental information related to this paper is available at the Journals Online website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-15-0221.s1.

Corresponding author address: Mohsen Badiey, College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment, University of Delaware, 111 Robinson Hall, Newark, DE 19716. E-mail: badiey@udel.edu

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