Estimation of internal Solitary Wave Height by Satelitte Images in the Deep Ocean / 以衛星影像估計深海內孤立波的波高

碩士 / 國立中山大學 / 海下科技暨應用海洋物理研究所 / 98 / Abstract
In the present study, the height of internal solitary wave is derived by combining the theoretical fluid flow field from perturbation method and MODIS images. The flow field is derived by assuming two-layer fluid system. Note that it is difficult to determine the interface depth from CTD measurement because sea water density changes continuously with depth. Moreover, changing the upper layer thickness will significantly affect the estimate of wave height. Thus, a proper method should be used so that the two-layer fluid system can represent the continuously stratified sea water. The resulting parameters for the two-layer system are the upper and lower layer thickness h1 and h2 and the corresponding densities ρ1 and ρ2 . Another important parameter dpp derived from MODIS images is the distance from dark-band to light-band. The dark-band and light-band are due to the interaction of surface and internal waves that changes roughness on the ocean surface. These processes are discussed in detail in this thesis. Finally, the parameters h1, h2, ρ1, ρ2 and dpp are combined to estimate internal solitary waves height in the deep ocean. According to the estimate for deep ocean with 3000m depth, the wave height is about 100m which is quite reasonable by comparing with in-situ observation.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/098NSYS5281011
Date January 2010
CreatorsChi-Meng Wang, 王啟盟
ContributorsGuan-Yu Chen, 陳冠宇
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format135

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