An experimental study of spatial evolution of statistical parameters in a unidirectional narrow-banded random wavefield

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Shemer, Lev ^a   Sergeeva, Anna ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TANKS (CONTAINERS); TRELLIS CODES;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FREQUENCY SPECTRUMS; GAUSSIAN SPECTRUM; GAUSSIAN STATISTICS; LONG WAVES; NON-LINEAR PARAMETERS; NON-LINEARITY PARAMETERS; RANDOM WAVES; RAYLEIGH DISTRIBUTIONS; SPATIAL EVOLUTIONS; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; SPECTRAL WIDTHS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; WAVE PARAMETERS; WAVEMAKER;

STATISTICS;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GAUSSIAN METHOD; NONLINEARITY; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SPECTRUM; WAVE FIELD;

EID: 63349110573     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JC005077     Document Type: Article

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