Observation of anomalous spectral downshifting of waves in the Okhotsk Sea Marginal Ice Zone

Waseda, Takuji, Alberello, Alberto ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7957-4012, Nose, Takehiko, Toyota, Takenobu, Kodaira, Tsubasa and Fujiwara, Yasushi (2022) Observation of anomalous spectral downshifting of waves in the Okhotsk Sea Marginal Ice Zone. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 380 (2235). ISSN 1364-503X

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Abstract

Waves in the Marginal Ice Zone in the Okhotsk Sea are less studied compared to the Antarctic and Arctic. In February 2020, wave observations were conducted for the first time in the Okhotsk Sea, during the observational program by Patrol Vessel Soya. A wave buoy was deployed on the ice, and in situ wave observations were made by a ship-borne stereo imaging system and Inertial Measurement Unit. Sea ice was observed visually and by aerial photographs by drone, while satellite synthetic aperture radar provided basin-wide spatial distribution. On 12 February, a swell system propagating from east northeast was detected by both the stereo imaging system and the buoy-on-ice. The wave system attenuated from 0.34 m significant wave height to 0.25 m in about 90 km, while the wave period increased from 10 s to 15–17 s. This anomalous spectral downshifting was not reproduced by numerical hindcast and by applying conventional frequency-dependent exponential attenuation to the incoming frequency spectrum. The estimated rate of spectral downshifting, defined as a ratio of momentum and energy losses, was close to that of uni-directional wave evolution accompanied by breaking dissipation: this indicates that dissipation-driven nonlinear downshifting may be at work for waves propagating in ice.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: marginal ice zone,nonlinear wave interaction,ocean waves,spectral downshifting,wave attenuation,wave modelling,mathematics(all),engineering(all),physics and astronomy(all) ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2600
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Science > School of Mathematics
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Fluid and Solid Mechanics
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Date Deposited: 26 Sep 2022 11:32
Last Modified: 24 Oct 2022 06:51
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/88640
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2021.0256

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