Current-induced modulation of the ocean wave spectrum and the role of nonlinear energy transfer

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2662-2684

  Tamura, Hitoshi ^a,d   Waseda, Takuji ^a,b   Miyazawa, Yasumasa ^a   Komatsu, Kosei ^c  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^d NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX WAVES; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; CURRENT DATUM; CURRENT FIELDS; CURRENT STRUCTURES; DISCRETE INTERACTIONS; ENERGY CONCENTRATIONS; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; HIGHLY SENSITIVES; HINDCAST; NONLINEAR ENERGY TRANSFERS; NONLINEAR TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; NONLINEAR TRANSFERS; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; OCEAN WAVE SPECTRUM; OCEAN WAVES; RE-ANALYSIS; REFRACTED WAVES; SELF-STABILIZATION EFFECTS; SHEAR CURRENTS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; SPECTRAL SHAPES; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; THIRD GENERATIONS; WAVE FORECASTING; WAVE HEIGHTS; WAVE MODELS; WAVE-CURRENT INTERACTIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODULATION; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; STABILIZATION; WATER WAVES;

WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HINDCASTING; OCEAN WAVE; OCEANIC CURRENT; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WAVE FIELD; WAVE MODELING; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE-CURRENT INTERACTION;

EID: 62749095492     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JPO4000.1     Document Type: Article

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