Airborne observations of fetch-limited waves in the gulf of tehuantepec

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 441-465

  Romero, Leonel ^a   Melville, W Kendall ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE OBSERVATIONS; AZIMUTHAL DIRECTION; DIRECTIONAL DISTRIBUTIONS; ENERGY DENSITY; FRICTION VELOCITY; OFFSHORE WINDS; PARAMETERIZED; POWER LAW; SATURATION RANGE; SPECTRAL PEAK; SQUARE ROOTS; TURBULENT FLUX; TWO-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE; WAVE AGE; WAVE DIRECTION; WAVE NUMBER DOMAIN; WAVE NUMBERS; WAVE PREDICTION MODELS; WAVE SPECTRA; WAVENUMBER SPECTRA; WIND FORCING;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

TWO DIMENSIONAL;

AIRBORNE SENSING; FETCH; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEAN WAVE; WIND DIRECTION; WIND FORCING; WIND WAVE;

GULF OF TEHUANTEPEC; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 73049115650     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JPO4127.1     Document Type: Article

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