Self-similarity of wind-driven seas

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 891-945

  Badulin, S I ^b   Pushkarev, A N ^d,e   Resio, D ^c   Zakharov, V E ^a,b,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c WATERWAYS EXPERIMENT STATION   (United States)

^d LANDAU INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^e Waves and Solitons LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL MODEL; WAVE MODELING; WIND WAVE;

EID: 30744440892     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: 16077946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-12-891-2005     Document Type: Article

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