Some evidence of colinear wind stress and wave breaking

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 2519-2524

  Rieder, Karl F ^a,c   Smith, Jerome A ^a   Weller, Robert A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WAVE BREAKING; WHITECAP MOTION; WIND STRESS;

EID: 0030422898     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(1996)026<2519:SEOCWS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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