Identification of intense, intermittent coherent motions under shoaling and breaking waves

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 105, Issue C6, 2000, Pages 14223-14236

  Cox, Daniel T ^a   Kobayashi, Nobuhisa ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAKING WAVES; SHOALING WAVE; SURF ZONE; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 0033670878     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000jc900048     Document Type: Article

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