Laboratory measurements of the generation and evolution of Langmuir circulations

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 364, Issue , 1998, Pages 31-58

  Melville, W Kendall ^a   Shear, Robert ^a   Veron, Fabrice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SURFACE WATERS; SURFACE WAVES; WIND EFFECTS;

LANGMUIR CIRCULATIONS;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 0032099898     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112098001098     Document Type: Article

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