Articles | Volume 16, issue 22
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-6515-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Ocean wave tracing v.1: a numerical solver of the wave ray equations for ocean waves on variable currents at arbitrary depths
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- RC1: 'Comment on gmd-2023-19', Leonel Romero, 25 May 2023
- RC2: 'Comment on gmd-2023-19', Anonymous Referee #2, 08 Jul 2023
- AC1: 'Comment on gmd-2023-19', Trygve Halsne, 17 Aug 2023
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ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (30 Aug 2023) by P N Vinayachandran
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ED: Publish as is (02 Oct 2023) by P N Vinayachandran
AR by Trygve Halsne on behalf of the Authors (02 Oct 2023)
The authors present a numerical solver of the ray equations for surface gravity waves accounting for slowly varying depth and currents. I believe the code should be of value to the community. Below I provide a list with minor suggestions.
Specific comments
Line 5 reads “… spatio-temporal variability much lower than characteristic wave properties”. I suggest being more specific.
8: What data retrieval and transformation are you referring to?
33. The joint effect of current- and depth-induced refraction at intermediate depth was also demonstrated by Romero et al. 2020 (Figure 14d).
57. \chi’ was already defined as \chi
Equation (9) assumes that the currents are stationary (see for example equation 2 of Mathiesen 1987). You should either state that explicitly or account for the current acceleration.
Equations 22-24: I suggest changing fadv to f_{\bf{x}}. Similarly, I also suggest changing fconc to f_{\bf{k}} in equations 25-27.
119-122: I would remove the comments about the concertina effect referring to the kinematical conservation equation.
265: Kenyon (1971) showed this first.
341-346: Again, Romero et al. 2020 carried out experiments of ray tracing with combined depth and current gradients and without currents.
References
Kenyon, K. E., 1971: Wave refraction in ocean currents. Deep Sea Res., 18, 1023–1034.
Mathiesen, M., 1987: Wave refraction by a current whirl. J. Geophys. Res., 92, 3905–3912.
Romero, L., D. Hypolite, and J. C. McWilliams, 2020: Submesoscale current effects on surface waves. Ocean Model., 153, 101662