Wavelet analysis of the surface temperature field at an air-water interface subject to moderate wind stress

International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1103-1112

  Scott, Nicholas V ^a   Handler, Robert A ^a   Smith, Geoffrey B ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Characteristic scale; Coherent temperature groups; Infrared imagery; Temperature fluctuation threshold; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ESTIMATION; EXPERIMENTS; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INFRARED IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL METHODS; STATISTICS; STRESSES; SURFACES; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE SCALES; THEOREM PROVING; THERMAL EFFECTS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; WATER ANALYSIS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS; WIND STRESS;

(ABIOTIC AND BIOTIC) STRESS; (I ,J) CONDITIONS; AIR WATER INTERFACE (AWI); AIR-SEA INTERACTIONS; APPLIED (CO); ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES; CROSS-WIND; HIGH TEMPERATURE EVENTS; INFRARED (IR) IMAGES; INFRARED IMAGERY; LOW TEMPERATURE (LTR); NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS (IGC: E4/K7); STREAK SPACING; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATIONS; TURBULENT DYNAMICS; TWO DIMENSIONAL INFRARED (2D IR); WAVE NUMBERS; WIDE-RANGE; WIND FORCING; WIND SPEED (WS);

PHASE INTERFACES;

EID: 46249099841     PISSN: 0142727X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatfluidflow.2007.11.002     Document Type: Article

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