Bispectra of internal waves
dc.contributor.author | McComas, C. H. | Concept link | ||
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-09-26T20:02:25Z | |||
dc.date.available | 2018-09-26T20:02:25Z | |||
dc.date.issued | 1978-03 | |||
dc.identifier.citation | McComas, C. H. (1978). Bispectra of internal waves. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. https://doi.org/10.1575/1912/10597 | |||
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1912/10597 | |||
dc.description.abstract | Derived from the equations of motion, the bispectrum of power indicates the rate of energy transfer among components of the internal wave field . This, or any other bispectrum, can be evaluated from weak resonant interaction theory given the wave spectrum. Using the Garrett and Munk model of the deep open ocean internal wave spectrum, the bispectrum of power and the closely related auto-bispectrum of vertical displacements are evaluated numerically with the intention of providing an observational test of the weak interaction theory and its predictions. The resulting levels of the bispectra for typical deep ocean internal waves are generally too low to be observed with any statistical confidence in an experiment of reasonable length and cost. | en_US | ||
dc.description.sponsorship | Prepared for the National Science Foundation under Grant OCE76-23532 and in part by Grants OCE77-25803 and OCE76-14739. | en_US | ||
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US | ||
dc.publisher | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | en_US | ||
dc.relation.ispartofseries | WHOI Technical Reports | en_US | ||
dc.relation.ispartofseries | WHOI-78-25 | en_US | ||
dc.subject | Internal waves | en_US | ||
dc.subject | Energy transfer | en_US | ||
dc.title | Bispectra of internal waves | en_US | ||
dc.type | Technical Report | en_US | ||
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1575/1912/10597 |