Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP0990575
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Wave Climate in the Southern Great Barrier Reef. Sea surface roughness has a major influence on global climate modelling. This project will provide a better understanding of the variability of sea waves in coastal waters. New technology of HF ocean radar can map wave fields over coastal waters and thus fill a gap between the open ocean satellite measurements and the point measurements from wave buoys. In this project we will improve the analysis of the radar echoes to produce sea wave spectra, and evaluate focussing of waves by complex currents on the continental shelf to help improve wave forecasting in coastal waters. The HF radar will be used to experimentally test current theories of wind wave spreading.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 10-2009
End Date: 10-2012
Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
Funding Amount: $258,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Oceanography | Physical Oceanography
