Wind wave growth at short fetch

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1597-1606

  Lamont Smith, T ^a,b   Waseda, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b QINETIQ   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA POINTS; DIMENSIONAL PARAMETERS; ENGINEERING LABORATORIES; FIELD DATUM; JOINT NORTH SEA WAVE PROJECTS; MULTIVARIATE REGRESSIONS; NON-DIMENSIONAL FREQUENCIES; NONDIMENSIONAL; OBSERVED RETENTIONS; ORBITAL VELOCITIES; POWER LAWS; RETENTION RATES; SANTA BARBARA; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHTS; SQUARE ROOTS; UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA; WAVE FREQUENCIES; WAVE HEIGHTS; WAVE PERIODS; WAVE TANKS; WIND SPEED; WIND WAVES; WIND-WAVE TANKS;

LABORATORIES; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEED; TANKS (CONTAINERS); WATER WAVES; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION; WAVES; WIND EFFECTS;

WIND POWER;

FETCH; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARAMETERIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WAVE HEIGHT; WIND VELOCITY; WIND WAVE; WIND-WAVE INTERACTION;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SANTA BARBARA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 65649084910     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JPO3712.1     Document Type: Article

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