Large-scale edge waves generated by hurricane landfall

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Yankovsky, Alexander E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HURRICANES; LOCOMOTIVES; OCEAN ENGINEERING; RAILROAD CARS; SEA LEVEL; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

BOUNDARY PROBLEMS; COASTAL OCEAN; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; DIRECT OBSERVATION; DISPERSION CHARACTERISTICS; EDGE WAVES; EULERIAN; FLORIDA; HURRICANE LANDFALL; KELVIN WAVES; LONG WAVES; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PROPAGATION SPEED; STORM SURGES; STORM SYSTEMS; STORM TRAJECTORIES; TEMPORAL SCALE; TIME-SCALE; TRANSLATION SPEED; TRANSLATION VELOCITY; WAVE ENERGY;

STORMS;

CONTINENTAL SHELF; EARTH ROTATION; EDGE WAVE; HURRICANE WILMA 2005; STORM SURGE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO; WEST FLORIDA SHELF;

EID: 67649216437     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JC005113     Document Type: Article

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