sea_bed_downward_stress_due_to_dissipation_of_sea_surface_waves

under discussion

Created: 13 Dec 2024

Proposer: Dani Wright

Proposed Date: 2024-12-05

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Standard names: proposal to add three new concepts related to seabed stress

Change Date: 13 Dec 2024, 11:38 a.m.

sea_bed_downward_stress_due_to_dissipation_of_sea_surface_waves
Ocean processes such as waves and currents can generate forces (or stress) on the sea bed. The surface called "sea bed" means the lower boundary of the ocean. "Stress" means the shear stress (force per unit area) exerted at the sea bed. A downward stress is a downward flux of momentum. "Downward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed downward (as the water is acting on the sea bed). The specification of a physical process by the phrase "due_to_" process means that the quantity named is a single term in a sum of terms which together compose the general quantity named by omitting the phrase. The phrase "dissipation_of_sea_surface_waves" means the stress associated with sea surface waves dissipation processes through bottom friction.

Change Date: 13 Dec 2024, 11:46 a.m.

sea_bed_downward_stress_due_to_dissipation_of_sea_surface_waves N m-2
Ocean processes such as waves and currents can generate forces (or stress) on the sea bed. The surface called "sea bed" means the lower boundary of the ocean. "Stress" means the shear stress (force per unit area) exerted at the sea bed. A downward stress is a downward flux of momentum. "Downward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed downward (as the water is acting on the sea bed). The specification of a physical process by the phrase "due_to_" process means that the quantity named is a single term in a sum of terms which together compose the general quantity named by omitting the phrase. The phrase "dissipation_of_sea_surface_waves" means the stress associated with sea surface waves dissipation processes through bottom friction.

Change Date: 13 Dec 2024, 11:46 a.m.

sea_bed_downward_stress_due_to_dissipation_of_sea_surface_waves N m-2 [UNSM]
Ocean processes such as waves and currents can generate forces (or stress) on the sea bed. The surface called "sea bed" means the lower boundary of the ocean. "Stress" means the shear stress (force per unit area) exerted at the sea bed. A downward stress is a downward flux of momentum. "Downward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed downward (as the water is acting on the sea bed). The specification of a physical process by the phrase "due_to_" process means that the quantity named is a single term in a sum of terms which together compose the general quantity named by omitting the phrase. The phrase "dissipation_of_sea_surface_waves" means the stress associated with sea surface waves dissipation processes through bottom friction.