Assessment of wind-forcing impact on a global wind-wave model using the TOPEX altimeter

Ocean Engineering

Volumn 33, Issue 11-12, 2006, Pages 1431-1461

  Feng, Hui ^a   Vandemark, Doug ^b   Quilfen, Yves ^c   Chapron, Bertrand ^c   Beckley, Brian ^d  

^a HAMPTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c IFREMER   (France)

^d HUGHES STX CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Altimeter; Scatterometer; Sea state bias; Wave modeling; Wind forcing

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS; WIND EFFECTS;

SCATTEROMETER; SEA STATE BIAS; WAVE MODELING; WIND FORCING;

ANEROID ALTIMETERS;

AERODYNAMICS; ANEROID ALTIMETERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS; WIND EFFECTS;

ALTIMETER; SCATTEROMETER; SEA STATE; WAVE MODELING; WIND FIELD; WIND FORCING; WIND-WAVE INTERACTION;

EID: 33745727962     PISSN: 00298018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2005.10.015     Document Type: Article

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