A threshold for wind-wave growth

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 114, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Donelan, Mark A ^a   Plant, William J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; FLUID DYNAMICS; FRICTION; HURRICANE EFFECTS; PHASE INTERFACES; RADAR CROSS SECTION; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SPECTRAL DENSITY; SPEED; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE WAVES; TRIBOLOGY; WATER WAVES; WAVELET TRANSFORMS; WIND EFFECTS;

A-WAVELET TRANSFORM; AIR WATER INTERFACES; AIR-WATER INTERACTION; FRICTION VELOCITY; GRAVITY CAPILLARY WAVES; LASER PROBES; RADAR BACKSCATTER; WATER TEMPERATURES; WAVE NUMBER DOMAIN; WIND SPEED; WIND WAVE; WIND-WAVE TANKS;

WIND STRESS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BACKSCATTER; CAPILLARY WAVE; RADAR; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE WAVE; THRESHOLD; WATER TEMPERATURE; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE PROPAGATION; WIND STRESS; WIND VELOCITY; WIND WAVE;

EID: 70349705952     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JC005238     Document Type: Article

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