Measurements of the viscous tangential stress in the airflow above wind waves

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 19, 2007, Pages

  Veron, F ^a   Saxena, G ^a   Misra, S K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; DRAG; FLOW VELOCITY; STRESS MEASUREMENT; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VISCOUS FLOW;

VISCOUS TANGENTIAL STRESS; WIND SPEED; WIND WAVES;

WIND STRESS;

AIRFLOW; CLIMATE MODELING; DRAG; GLOBAL CLIMATE; STRESS MEASUREMENT; WIND VELOCITY; WIND WAVE;

EID: 37249039581     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031242     Document Type: Article

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