Breaking Ocean Waves : Geometry, Structure, and Remote Sensing

Geometry, Structure, and Remote Sensing

By: Eugene A. Sharkov

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This book represents the most comprehensive description of the physical findings of an investigation into the spatio-temporal characteristics of the gravity of breaking waves and the foam activity in open sea by methods and instruments of optical and microwave remote sensing. The study of physical and electrodynamics' properties of the gravity wave breaking processes and the foam spatio-temporal activity is an important facet of satellite oceanography, ocean engineering, air-sea interaction and ocean remote sensing. In particular, the contribution of foam formations of various types to the mean and the spatio-temporal variations of radio emission, back-scattering, IR and optical parameters of the disturbed sea surface is highly significant. The statistical characteristics of wave breaking and attendant foam forming are very important to ocean wave dynamics. Numerous practical applications and illustrations are provided from air-borne, ship-borne and laboratory up-to-date experiments.

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Preface
Acknowledgments
List of figures
List of tables
List of abbreviations and acronyms
Introduction and rationale	p. 1
Breaking ocean waves in the atmosphere-ocean system	p. 1
Breaking ocean waves and microwave remote sensing	p. 5
Classification of investigation techniques: methodology of experiments	p. 7
Conclusions	p. 8
Spatial stochastic breaking wave fields in the atmosphere-ocean system	p. 9
Statement of the problem of studying the spatial stochastic structure of breaking waves	p. 9
Technique and conditions for performing field experiments	p. 10
Spatial-statistical properties of a breaking wave field in developed seas	p. 21
Spatial-statistical properties of a developing sea breaking field	p. 36
Fractal properties of wave-breaking zones in stationary and developing seas	p. 42
Conclusion	p. 48
Linear and two-dimensional geometry of whitecapping and foam structures	p. 49
The problem of studying the spatial-stochastic structure of individual breaking waves	p. 49
Remote investigation of individual foam structures in the wavebreaking process	p. 50
Processing the data from remote sensing of individual foam structures in the wave-breaking process	p. 52
Statistics on the elements in the linear geometry of individual foam structures in the wave-breaking process	p. 58
Statistics of elements of the two-dimensional geometry of individual foam structures in the wave-breaking process	p. 61
Statistics of the specific density of breaking centers	p. 68
A spatial field of wave breakings and the overshoot theory for a random Gaussian field	p. 72
Conclusions	p. 80
The lifetime dynamics of sea wave breakings	p. 83
The problem of studying the lifetime dynamics of the sea wave breaking process	p. 83
Technique and conditions of field experiments	p. 85
Temporal evolution of the breaking process	p. 90
Spatiotemporal characteristics of mesobreakings	p. 96
Spectral characteristics of an aerated layer	p. 100
Conclusions	p. 101
The drop-spray phase over a rough sea surface	p. 103
Physical mechanisms of drop-spray phase generation	p. 103
Disperse characteristics of the drop-spray phase	p. 106
Conclusions	p. 117
Electrodynamics of a rough, disperse, closely packed media	p. 119
Foam as a colloidal system: physical and structural properties	p. 119
Physical and chemical properties of sea foam	p. 123
Disperse structure of sea foam in the Black Sea basin	p. 128
Earlier measurements and "naive" electromagnetic models	p. 132
Experimental investigations of characteristics of roughly disperse systems by radiophysical methods	p. 136
The theory of natural radiation of disperse closely packed systems	p. 154
Conclusions	p. 177
Electrodynamics of concentrated drop flows	p. 179
Electromagnetic properties of secluded particles	p. 179
Basic concepts of the Mie theory	p. 184
Scattering properties of aqueous particles	p. 189
Electromagnetic properties of polydisperse media	p. 194
Backscattering by natural polydisperse volume targets	p. 204
Features of radiative transfer in dense media	p. 209
Conclusions	p. 221
Field optical-microwave remote sensing of the air-sea transition zone in the atmosphere-ocean system	p. 223
Space oceanography problems	p. 223
Optical and radiophysical investigations of the oceanic gravity wave breaking process	p. 227
Radio emission of crest and strip foam: field ship investigations	p. 241
Radio emission of a breaking wave field: airplane investigations	p. 246
Nonlinear dynamics of gravity waves in the breaking wave backscattering field	p. 251
Conclusions	p. 261
Conclusions	p. 263
References	p. 265
Index	p. 277
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