Change of Multifractal Thermal Characteristics in the Western Philippine Sea Upper Layer during Internal Wave-Soliton Propagation

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dc.contributor.authorChu, Peter C.
dc.contributor.authorHsieh, Chung-Ping
dc.contributor.departmentOceanographyen_US
dc.date2007
dc.date.accessioned2013-09-11T23:03:01Z
dc.date.available2013-09-11T23:03:01Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.descriptionJournal of Oceanography, Oceanographic Society of Japan, 63, 927-939.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe upper layer (above 140 m depth) temperature in the western Philippine Sea near Taiwan was sampled using a coastal monitoring buoy (CMB) with 15 attached thermistors during July 28–August 7, 2005. The data were collected every 10 min at 1, 3, 5, 10, 15, and 20 m using the CMB sensors, and every 15 sec at 15 different depths between 25 m and 140 m. Internal waves and solitons were identified from the time-depth plot of the temperature field. Without the internal waves and solitons, the power spectra, structure functions, and singular measures (representing the intermittency) of temperature field satisfy the power law with multi-scale characteristics at all depths. The internal waves do not change the basic characteristics of the multifractal structure. However, the internal solitons change the power exponent of the power spectra drastically, especially in the low wave number domain; they also break down the power law of the structure function and increase the intermittency parameter. The physical mechanisms causing these different effects need to be explored further.en_US
dc.identifier.citationChu, P.C. and C. P. Hsieh, 2007: Change of Multifractal Thermal Characteristics in the Western Philippine Sea Upper Layer during Internal Wave-Soliton Propagation (paper download). Journal of Oceanography, Oceanographic Society of Japan, 63, 927-939.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10945/36146
dc.rightsThis publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.en_US
dc.subject.authorHigh-order structure functionen_US
dc.subject.authorintermittencyen_US
dc.subject.authorinternal waveen_US
dc.subject.authorinternal solitonen_US
dc.subject.authormultifractal analysisen_US
dc.subject.authorpower spectrumen_US
dc.subject.authorstationarityen_US
dc.subject.authorsingular measureen_US
dc.titleChange of Multifractal Thermal Characteristics in the Western Philippine Sea Upper Layer during Internal Wave-Soliton Propagationen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dspace.entity.typePublication
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