The decay of flexural-gravity waves in long sea ice transects

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 465, Issue 2109, 2009, Pages 2785-2812

  Vaughan, Gareth L ^a   Bennetts, Luke G ^a   Squire, Vernon A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Flexural gravity waves; Long transects; Scattering; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

DECAY (ORGANIC); ENERGY DISSIPATION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; HYDRODYNAMICS; SCATTERING; SEA ICE; VISCOSITY; WATER WAVES; WAVES;

ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; DECAY RATE; ENERGY LOSS; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; EXPONENTIAL DECAYS; FLEXURAL-GRAVITY WAVES; ICE THICKNESS; LONG TRANSECTS; NATURALLY OCCURRING; OCEAN WAVES; REFLECTION AND TRANSMISSION COEFFICIENTS; TRANSITION REGIMES; TWO DIMENSIONAL MODEL; WAVE SCATTERING;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 70349418586     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2009.0187     Document Type: Article

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