Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-2011
Publication Title
Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology
ISSN
0739-0572
Volume
28
Issue/No.
5
First Page
720
Last Page
733
Abstract
A large dataset of high-resolution photographic images of far wakes of a volunteer observing ship (Royal Caribbean’s Explorer of the Seas) has been acquired under various meteorological conditions and ship operation modes. This work presents the description of instrumentation, methodology, and the results of the experiment. Environmental and ship operation factors that affect appearance and geometric properties of ship wakes in photographic and satellite-based radar images have been analyzed. The photo imagery reveals an asymmetry of the wake depending on wind direction relative to the ship course. In addition, a good agreement between the averaged shape of the wakes measured from the photographic images and a few available satellite-based radar images of the wake of the same ship has been found.
Additional Comments
Office of Naval Research grant #: N00014-06-1-0931
NSUWorks Citation
M. Gilman, Alexander Soloviev, and H. Graber. 2011. Study of the Far Wake of a Large Ship .Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology , (5) : 720 -733. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_facarticles/621.
ORCID ID
0000-0001-6519-1547
DOI
10.1175/2010JTECHO791.1
Comments
©2011 American Meteorological Society