Wave dissipation by muddy seafloors

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Elgar, Steve ^a   Raubenheimer, Britt ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY STORAGE; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUIDICS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; NUMBER THEORY; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER WAVES; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

15TH CENTURY; AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DISSIPATION RATES; GULF OF MEXICO (GOM); INFRAGRAVITY WAVES; LOUISIANA; MUD BANKS; NEAR-SHORE; NEW RESULTS; NON-LINEAR WAVES; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; SEA-FLOORS; SHALLOW WATERS; SOUTHWEST (CO); TRANSFER ENERGY; WATER DEPTHS; WAVE DISSIPATION; WAVE ENERGIES;

WAVES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DISSIPATION; MODELING; OCEAN WAVE; SEAFLOOR; SHALLOW WATER; WATER DEPTH; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE PROPERTY;

ASIA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; EURASIA; GULF OF MEXICO; INDIA; LOUISIANA; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH ASIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 45549104512     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL033245     Document Type: Article

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