The whitecap coverage model from breaking dissipation parametrizations of wind waves

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Guan, Changlong ^a   Hu, Wei ^a   Sun, Jian ^a   Li, Ruili ^a  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAMPING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETERIZATION; WIND;

NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; WAVE BREAKING; WIND WAVE;

EID: 41049116726     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JC003714     Document Type: Article

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