Document Type
Post-Print
Publication Date
2011
Subjects
Snohomish River (Wash.) -- Streamflow -- Measurement, Snohomish River (Wash.) -- Turbulence, Snohomish River (Wash.) -- Remote sensing
Abstract
Thermal infrared (IR) based particle image velocimetry (PIV) is used to measure the evolution of velocity, turbulent kinetic energy (TKE), and the TKE dissipation rate at the water surface in the tidally influenced Snohomish River. Patterns of temperature variability in the IR imagery arise from disruption of the cool skin layer and are used to estimate the 2D velocity field. Comparisons of IR based PIV mean velocity made against a collocated acoustic velocimeter demonstrate high correlation (r2 > 0.9). Over a tidal period, surface TKE computed from the IR velocity varies from 10-4 J·kg-1 to 3x10-3 J·kg-1, with an average difference from the in situ measurements of 8%. IR-derived TKE dissipation rates vary from approximately 3x10-6 W·kg-1 to 2x10-4 W·kg-1 at peak ebb, agreeing on average to within 7% of the in situ velocimeter results. Infrared-based PIV provides detailed measurements of previously inaccessible surface flow and turbulence statistics.
DOI
10.1109/LGRS.2011.2125942
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/11189
Citation Details
Chickadel, C. Chris; Talke, Stefan A.; Horner-Devine, Alexander R.; and Jessup, Andrew T., "Infrared-Based Measurements of Velocity, Turbulent Kinetic Energy, and Dissipation at the Water Surface in a Tidal River" (2011). Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations. 83.
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/11189
Description
This is an Author's Original Manuscript of an article whose final and definitive form, the Version of Record, has been published in Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, IEEE (Vol 8, Issue 5) 2011. The article is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2011.2125942