Wind-wave tank measurements of bound and freely propagating short gravity-capillary waves

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 103, Issue C10, 1998, Pages 21697-21709

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c FEDERAL WATERWAYS ENGINEERING AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTER; CAPILLARY WAVE; FILM; GRAVITY WAVE; SEA SURFACE; WAVE PROPAGATION; WIND WAVE;

EID: 0032531386     PISSN: 21699275     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98JC00778     Document Type: Article

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