Wind wave tank measurements of wave damping and radar cross sections in the presence of monomolecular surface films

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 103, Issue C2, 1998, Pages 3167-3178

  Gade, Martin ^a   Alpers, Werner ^a   Hühnerfuss, Heinrich ^a   Lange, Philipp A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL WATERWAYS ENGINEERING AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY WAVES; SURFACE WAVES; WIND WAVES;

EID: 0032519276     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97jc01578     Document Type: Article

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