COUPLING TROPICAL CYCLONE AND CLIMATE PHYSICS WITH OCEAN WAVES

An assessment of the impact of surface currents on wave modeling in the Southern Ocean

Henrique Rapizo, Tom H Durrant, Alexander V Babanin

2018-08-01

This paper presents an assessment of the impact of the ocean circulation on modeled wave fields in the Southern Ocean, where a sys..

Changes in Ocean Heat Content Caused by Wave-Induced Mixing in a High-Resolution Ocean Model

Lachlan Stoney, Kevin JE Walsh, Steven Thomas, Paul Spence, Alexander V Babanin

2018-05-01

A parameterization of turbulent mixing from unbroken surface waves is included in a 16-yr simulation within a high-resolution ocea..

Winds near the Surface of Waves: Observations and Modeling

Alexander V Babanin, Jason McConochie, Dmitry Chalikov

2018-05-01

The concept of a constant-flux layer is usually employed for vertical profiling of the wind measured at some elevation near the oc..

Simulated ocean response to tropical cyclones: The effect of a novel parameterization of mixing from unbroken surface waves

Lachlan Stoney, Kevin Walsh, Alexander V Babanin, Malek Ghantous, Pallavi Govekar, Ian Young

2017-06-01

Tropical cyclones dissipate large amounts of energy into the upper ocean, locally enhancing vertical mixing and cooling the sea su..

The effect on simulated ocean climate of a parameterization of unbroken wave-induced mixing incorporated into the k-epsilon mixing scheme

Kevin Walsh, Pallavi Govekar, Alexander V Babanin, Malek Ghantous, Paul Spence, Enrico Scoccimarro

2017-06-01

A new parameterization of mixing processes in the upper ocean is tested in a ¼° resolution global ocean climate model. The paramet..

Estimation of Kinetic Energy Dissipation from Breaking Waves in the Wave Crest Region

JH Lee, JP Monty, J Elsnab, A Toffoli, AV Babanin, A Alberello

2017-05-01

Wave-induced turbulence due to breaking in the absence of surface shear stresses is investigated experimentally. A high-fidelity p..

Nonbreaking wave-induced mixing in upper ocean during tropical cyclones using coupled hurricane-ocean-wave modeling

S Aijaz, M Ghantous, AV Babanin, I Ginis, B Thomas, G Wake

2017-05-01

The effects of turbulence generated by nonbreaking waves have been investigated by testing and evaluating a new nonbreaking wave p..

Current-induced dissipation in spectral wave models

H Rapizo, AV Babanin, D Provis, WE Rogers

2017-03-01

Despite many recent developments of the parameterization for wave dissipation in spectral models, it is evident that when waves pr..

Event-Based Validation of Swell Arrival Time

Haoyu Jiang, Alexander V Babanin, Ge Chen

2016-12-01

The arrival time of ocean swells is an important factor for offshore and coastal engineering and naval and recreational activities..

Wind and Wave Climate in the Arctic Ocean as Observed by Altimeters

Qingxiang Liu, Alexander V Babanin, Stefan Zieger, Ian R Young, Changlong Guan

2016-11-01

Twenty years (1996-2015) of satellite observations were used to study the climatology and trends of oceanic winds and waves in the..

Laboratory Experiments on the Effects of a Variable Current Field on the Spectral Geometry of Water Waves

Henrique Rapizo, Takuji Waseda, Alexander V Babanin, Alessandro Toffoli

2016-09-01

Laboratory experiments were performed to investigate the effects of a coflowing current field on the spectral shape of water waves..

Nonlinear sharpening during superposition of surface waves

Dmitry Chalikov, Alexander V Babanin

2016-08-01

Two-dimensional direct wave model is used for demonstration of the role of reversible interactions which probably is the main proc..

Calibration and Validation of HY-2 Altimeter Wave Height

Qingxiang Liu, Alexander V Babanin, Changlong Guan, Stefan Zieger, Jian Sun, Yongjun Jia

2016-05-01

Hai Yang-2 (HY-2) satellite altimeter measurements of significant wave height (Hs) are analyzed over the period from 1 October 201..

Wave spectral response to sudden changes in wind direction in finite-depth waters

S Aijaz, WE Rogers, AV Babanin

2016-01-01

The response of a wind-sea spectrum to sudden changes in wind directions of 180° and 90° is investigated. Numerical simulations us..

The nonlinear Schrodinger equation and the propagation of weakly nonlinear waves in optical fibers and on the water surface

A Chabchoub, B Kibler, C Finot, G Millot, M Onorato, JM Dudley, AV Babanin

2015-10-01

The dynamics of waves in weakly nonlinear dispersive media can be described by the nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLSE). An impor..

Numerical modeling of 3D fully nonlinear potential periodic waves

Dmitry Chalikov, Alexander V Babanin, Elena Sanina

2014-10-01

A simple and exact numerical scheme for long-term simulations of 3D potential fully nonlinear periodic gravity waves is suggested...