Statistics of nonlinear internal waves during the Shallow Water 2006 Experiment
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2016-04-18Metadata
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https://hdl.handle.net/1912/8073DOI
10.1175/JTECH-D-15-0221.1Keyword
Geographic location/entity; Continental shelf/slope; North America; Observational techniques and algorithms; Data processing; In situ oceanic observations; Sampling; Mathematical and statistical techniques; StatisticsAbstract
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.
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Author Posting. © American Meteorological Society, 2016. This article is posted here by permission of American Meteorological Society for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 33 (2016): 839-846, doi:10.1175/JTECH-D-15-0221.1.
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