Evolution of a random directional wave and freak wave occurrence

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 621-639

  Waseda, Takuji ^a,b   Kinoshita, Takeshi ^c   Tamura, Hitoshi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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

^c INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEEP WATER; DIRECTIONAL SPREADING; DIRECTIONAL WAVES; EXTREME WAVES; FREAK WAVE; FREQUENCY BAND WIDTH; HIGH RESOLUTION; HINDCAST; NON-LINEARITY; RARE EVENT; RESONANT WAVES; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; SPECTRAL PARAMETERS; WAVE EVOLUTION; WAVE HEIGHTS; WAVE STEEPNESS; WAVE TANK; WAVEFIELD; WIND SEA;

BANDWIDTH; TANKS (CONTAINERS); WATER WAVE EFFECTS; WATER WAVES;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

HINDCASTING; PARAMETERIZATION; PROBABILITY; RANDOM WAVE; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; WAVE FIELD; WAVE GENERATION; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE-WAVE INTERACTION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST);

EID: 65549124920     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JPO4031.1     Document Type: Article

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