Development of nonlinearity in the wind-wave interaction in a mistral event

Journal of Coastal Research

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 464-471

  Elsayed, Mohamed A K ^a  

^a State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Wave growth; Wavelet bicoherence; Wavelet cross spectrum

Indexed keywords

NONLINEARITY; WAVE GENERATION; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE SPECTRUM; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WIND VELOCITY; WIND-WAVE INTERACTION;

EID: 34047144977     PISSN: 07490208     EISSN: 15515036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2112/04-0377.1     Document Type: Article

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