Capillary jumps on deep water

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1957-1965

  Longuet Higgins, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENTS; GRAVITY WAVES; WAVES;

CAPILLARY JUMPS; DEEP WATER; GRAVITY WAVES;

EID: 0030441065     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(1996)026<1957:CJODW>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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