Refraction of swell by surface currents

• Main Authors: Gallet, Basile, Young, William R.
• Format: Report
• Language: unknown
• Published: arXiv 2014
• Subjects: Fluid Dynamics physics.flu-dyn; Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics physics.ao-ph; FOS Physical sciences; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; New Zealand; Munk; Mirages; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1410.1676; https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.1676

Using recordings of swell from pitch-and-roll buoys, we have reproduced the classic observations of long-range surface wave propagation originally made by Munk et al. (1963) using a triangular array of bottom pressure measurements. In the modern data, the direction of the incoming swell fluctuates b...