Spume drops produced by the wind tearing of wave crests

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1156-1165

  Anguelova, Magdalena ^a   Barber Jr , Richard P ^a,b   Wu, Jin ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL FORMATION; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BREAKING WAVES; DROPLET; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; SEA SURFACE; WIND-WAVE INTERACTION;

EID: 0032718843     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(1999)029<1156:SDPBTW>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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