Physics of "Saturation-based" dissipation functions proposed for wave forecast models

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1831-1841

  Babanin, Alexander V ^a   Van der Westhuysen, André J ^b  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b DELTARES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSIPATION FUNCTIONS; EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER EQUATIONS; SOURCE FUNCTIONS; SPECTRAL WAVE MODELS; WAVE DISSIPATIONS; WAVE FORECASTS; WAVE SPECTRUM; WAVE-BREAKING;

OCEANOGRAPHY; WAVES;

ENERGY DISSIPATION;

DISSIPATION; FORECASTING METHOD; WAVE MODELING; WAVE SPECTRUM;

EID: 65649084912     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JPO3874.1     Document Type: Article

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