Observed variability of ocean wave Stokes drift, and the Eulerian response to passing groups

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1381-1402

  Smith, Jerome A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; OCEAN CURRENTS; WATER WAVES;

EULERIAN COUNTERFLOWS; MASS FLUXES; MOMENTUM FLUXES; OCEAN WAVE STOKES DRIFT;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EULERIAN ANALYSIS; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; OCEAN WAVE; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 33748477527     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO2910.1     Document Type: Article

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