Observation of swell dissipation across oceans

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Ardhuin, Fabrice ^a   Chapron, Bertrand ^b   Collard, Fabrice ^c  

^a Section de Géodésie Géophysique   (France)

^b Centre Bretagne   (France)

^c CLS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR SEA FLUX; DISSIPATION RATES; E-FOLDING; ENERGY DECAY; GLOBAL OBSERVATION; TURBULENT TRANSITION; WAVE FORECASTING;

OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STORMS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; ENERGY DISSIPATION; ENERGY FLUX; FORECASTING METHOD; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SATELLITE DATA; SWELL; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WAVE GENERATION; WAVE MODELING;

EID: 66949151426     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL037030     Document Type: Article

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