Extracting Reynolds stresses from acoustic Doppler current profiler measurements in wave-dominated environments

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 286-306

  Rosman, Johanna H ^a   Hench, James L ^a   Koseff, Jeffrey R ^a   Monismith, Stephen G ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ADAPTIVE FILTERS; CORRELATION METHODS; CURVE FITTING; DOPPLER EFFECT; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; FILTRATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; MEASUREMENTS; MIXED CONVECTION; MONOCHROMATORS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SEPARATION; SPEED; STATISTICS; STRESSES; SURFACE WAVES; TURBULENCE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

(1 1 0) SURFACE; (I ,J) CONDITIONS; (P ,P ,T) MEASUREMENTS; ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER (ADCP); ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILERS (ADCPS); AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY (AMS); APPLIED (CO); BEAM VELOCITIES; CALIFORNIA; DATA-SETS; FITTING METHODS; GENERAL (CO); MONOCHROMATIC WAVES; REYNOLDS' STRESSES; SANTA BARBARA (CO); VARIANCE METHOD (VM); VELOCITY CORRELATIONS; WAVE STRESS;

WAVES;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; CORRELATION; DATA SET; PROFILER; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SURFACE WAVE; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

CALIFORNIA; FRENCH POLYNESIA; MOOREA; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; POLYNESIA; SANTA BARBARA [CALIFORNIA]; SOCIETY ISLANDS; UNITED STATES; WINDWARD ISLANDS [SOCIETY ISLANDS];

EID: 45249103070     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JTECHO525.1     Document Type: Article

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