Evolution of kurtosis for wind waves

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 13, 2009, Pages

  Annenkov, S Y ^a   Shrira, V I ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREAK WAVE; GAUSSIANITY; KINETIC EQUATIONS; LONG-TERM EVOLUTION; NON-GAUSSIAN; RAYLEIGH DISTRIBUTIONS; SHARP INCREASE; WAVEFIELDS; WIND WAVE; ZAKHAROV EQUATIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

WAVES;

EQUATION; GAUSSIAN METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; WAVE FIELD; WIND WAVE;

EID: 70349240407     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL038613     Document Type: Article

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