Energy dissipation and the spectral distribution of whitecaps

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Thomson, Jim ^a   Gemmrich, Johannes R ^b   Jessup, Andrew T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL VIDEO RECORDING; DISSIPATION RATES; DOPPLER VELOCITY; ENERGY INPUTS; FIELD DATA; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PHILLIPS; REMOTE OBSERVATION; SPECTRAL DISTRIBUTION; WAVE STEEPNESS; WAVEBREAKING;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY DISSIPATION; ENERGY DISSIPATORS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; OCEANOGRAPHY; VIDEO RECORDING;

WIND POWER;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; ENERGY DISSIPATION; MODEL VALIDATION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; VELOCITY PROFILE; WATER WAVE; WAVE BREAKING;

EID: 68949091780     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL038201     Document Type: Article

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