Experiments on focusing unidirectional water waves

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 106, Issue C8, 2001, Pages 16917-16928

  Brown, Michael G ^a   Jensen, Atle ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GRAVITY WAVE; NON-LINEAR MOTION; WAVE TRAIN;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GRAVITY WAVE; NONLINEARITY; SEA SURFACE; SURFACE WAVE; WAVE FIELD;

EID: 0034834480     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000jc000584     Document Type: Article

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