Statistical properties of mechanically generated surface gravity waves: A laboratory experiment in a three-dimensional wave basin

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 627, Issue , 2009, Pages 235-257

  Onorato, M ^a   Cavaleri, L ^b   Fouques, S ^c   Gramstad, O ^d   Janssen, P A E M ^e   Monbaliu, J ^f   Osborne, A R ^a   Pakozdi, C ^c   Serio, M ^a   Stansberg, C T ^c   Toffoli, A ^g   Trulsen, K ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCES   (Italy)

^c SINTEF OCEAN   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^e EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^g DNV GL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DIRECTIONAL DISTRIBUTIONS; ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS; GAUSSIAN STATISTICS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; PROBABILITY OF OCCURRENCE; SECOND-ORDER THEORY; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; SURFACE GRAVITY WAVES;

GRAVITY WAVES;

GRAVITY WAVE; LABORATORY METHOD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE MODELING;

EID: 67649966731     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S002211200900603X     Document Type: Article

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