Choppy wave model for nonlinear gravity waves

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 114, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Nouguier, Frédéric ^a   Guérin, Charles Antoine ^b   Chapron, Bertrand ^c  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULON   (France)

^c Centre Bretagne   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; HYDRODYNAMICS; PLANERS; SPECTROSCOPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TWO DIMENSIONAL; WAVES;

APRIORI; FREQUENCY SPECTRA; HIGH FREQUENCY; LOCAL DISPLACEMENT; NON-GAUSSIAN; NON-LINEAR THEORY; NONLINEAR SURFACE; SECOND ORDERS; SPACE AND TIME; STATIONARITY; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; SURFACE VARIATIONS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE; WAVE MODELS; WAVENUMBER SPECTRA;

SURFACE PROPERTIES;

GAUSSIAN METHOD; GRAVITY WAVE; NONLINEAR WAVE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL CONCEPT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WAVE MODELING;

EID: 72849151828     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JC004984     Document Type: Article

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