On the strength of breaking of deep water waves

Coastal Engineering 2000 - Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Coastal Engineering, ICCE 2000

Volumn 276, Issue , 2000, Pages 369-381

  Peirson, William L ^a   Banner, Michael L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAKING STRENGTH; BREAKING WAVES; CONSISTENT VALUES; CONTINUOUS WAVE; CREST LENGTH; DEEP-WATER WAVES; DISSIPATION RATES; ENERGY DISSIPATION RATE; PARAMETERISATION; PER UNIT; QUASI-STEADY; SHIP WAKES; SHORT WIND WAVES; STRENGTH PARAMETERS; SUBSURFACE OBSTACLES; THRESHOLD WAVES; WATER DENSITY; WAVE CONDITIONS; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE ENERGY DISSIPATION; WAVE PREDICTION MODELS; WAVE SPEED; WAVE STEEPNESS; WAVEBREAKING;

COASTAL ENGINEERING; DENSITY MEASUREMENT (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY DISSIPATION; ENERGY DISSIPATORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

WIND POWER;

EID: 70349408680     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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