title: Contours of slopes of a rippled water surface.
abstract: The appearance of a horizontal array of linear lamps below the water surface when viewed from above is approximately in the form of contours of one component of the water surface slope. The degree of approximation is a fraction of one percent when this method is used to describe the slopes of a wind ruffled surface. An extension of the method to image both components of slope requires two arrays of lamps pulsed alternately and in synchronism with a fast camera.
authors: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD—0213, La Jolla, California 9209, USA. cscox@ucsd.edu
authors: Charles
authors: C
authors: Cox
authors: Xin
authors: X
authors: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003198:Computer Simulation; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D009991:Oscillometry / Q000379:methods*; D014872:Water Movements; D014919:Wind