Bound waves and Bragg scattering in a wind-wave tank

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 104, Issue C2, 1999, Pages 3243-3263

  Plant, William J ^a   Keller, William C ^a   Hesany, Vahid ^a   Kara, Tetsu ^b   Bock, Erik ^c   Donelan, Mark A ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^e ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTER; NONLINEAR WAVE; WAVE MODELING; WIND WAVE;

EID: 0033557556     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998jc900061     Document Type: Article

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