On the vertical structure of wind-driven sea currents

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2121-2144

  Kudryavtsev, Vladimir ^a,c,d   Shrira, Victor ^b   Dulov, Vladimir ^c   Malinovsky, Vladimir ^c  

^a Nansen International Environmental and Remote Sensing Center NIERSC   (Russian Federation)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c MARINE HYDROPHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; EXPERIMENTS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE WATERS; TURBULENCE; WATER INJECTION; WIND POWER;

AND MODELING; BREAKING WAVES; DIRECT INJECTIONS; EXPERIMENTAL DATUMS; FIELD EXPERIMENTS; MODEL PREDICTIONS; SEA CURRENTS; SEA SURFACE CURRENTS; SEA SURFACES; SEMIEMPIRICAL MODELS; SMOOTH SURFACES; SUBSURFACE TURBULENCES; SURFACE CURRENTS; SURFACE WIND DRIFTS; TURBULENCE INTENSITIES; TURBULENT MIXING; VELOCITY DEFECTS; VELOCITY GRADIENTS; VELOCITY SHEARS; VERTICAL STRUCTURES; WATER BODIES; WIND SPEEDS;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

MODELING; TURBULENCE; WAVE BREAKING; WIND VELOCITY; WIND WAVE; WIND-DRIVEN CURRENT;

EID: 57849132221     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JPO3883.1     Document Type: Article

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