The effect of breaking waves on a coupled model of wind and ocean surface waves. Part II: Growing seas

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2164-2184

  Kukulka, Tobias ^a,b   Hara, Tetsu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUID DYNAMICS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; SURFACE WAVES; WATER WAVES; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION; WAVE EQUATIONS; WAVES; WIND STRESS;

AIR SIDES; AIRFLOW SEPARATIONS; BREAKING WAVES; COUPLED MODELS; DELAY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FIELD CONDITIONS; FIELD MEASUREMENTS; FORM DRAGS; LABORATORY CONDITIONS; MODEL RESULTS; NUMERIC SOLUTIONS; OCEAN SURFACE WAVES; ROUGHNESS LENGTHS; SATURATION LEVELS; SHELTERING EFFECTS; SHORTER WAVES; SPECTRAL PEAKS; TURBULENT STRESSES; WAVE CONDITIONS; WAVE HEIGHTS; WAVE MODELS; WIND SPEEDS; WIND WAVES;

WIND POWER;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; BREAKING WAVE; DRAG; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; WAVE HEIGHT; WIND FORCING; WIND STRESS; WIND WAVE;

EID: 57849161461     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JPO3962.1     Document Type: Article

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