Fast ferry traffic as a qualitatively new forcing factor of environmental processes in non-tidal sea areas: A case study in Tallinn Bay, Baltic Sea

Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 293-323

  Soomere, Tarmo ^a  

^a TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; High speed ships; Tallinn Bay; Wake wash; Wave measurements

Indexed keywords

HYDRODYNAMICS; VESSEL; WAKE; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE GENERATION; WIND-WAVE INTERACTION;

EID: 26944467486     PISSN: 15677419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10652-005-5226-1     Document Type: Article

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