Abstract

The wave-induced velocity, known commonly as Stokes drift, plays an important role on upper ocean current system. However, in general, the depth profile tends to be estimated using a regular wave approximation like calculation from significant wave height in order to simplify the modeling. Breivik et al. (2014) proposed an improved Stokes drift profile to considering random waves but discussed limited to deep water. This study proposes a novel treatment of Stokes drift on random waves to consider full directional spectra and the approximated treatment is introduced into coupled ocean-wave model to apply for the depth-limited region. To validate the proposed treatment, Stokes drift velocity derived from the treatment is theoretically and empirically compared with some derived from regular wave approximation. Finally coastal current simulation is performed for Kii channel of Japan focusing on Tanabe bay by the coupled model with two-way-nesting scheme.

Highlights

  • The wave-induced velocity, known commonly as Stokes drift, plays an important role on upper ocean current system

  • STOKES DRIFT ON RANDOM WAVES Full directional spectrum can be calculated in a spectrum wave model (Simulating WAves Nearshore: SWAN) and the spectrum information is transferred to an ocean model (Regional Ocean Modeling System: ROMS) to be considered in vortex force terms of the ocean model

  • We proposed a new treatment of Stokes drift including full directional spectrum of random waves for coupled oceanwave model

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Introduction

The wave-induced velocity, known commonly as Stokes drift, plays an important role on upper ocean current system. STOKES DRIFT ON RANDOM WAVES Full directional spectrum can be calculated in a spectrum wave model (Simulating WAves Nearshore: SWAN) and the spectrum information is transferred to an ocean model (Regional Ocean Modeling System: ROMS) to be considered in vortex force terms of the ocean model. Reducing the data transfer costs between SWAN and ROMS, the minimum spectrum information (direction and frequency spectrum parameters) is used to describe directional spectra based on two dimensional Gaussian distribution around the peak wave number (Mori et al, 2011).

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