Relating the drag coefficient and the roughness length over the sea to the wavelength of the peak waves

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3011-3020

  Andreas, Edgar L ^a  

^a NorthWest Research Associates Inc   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; FRICTION VELOCITY; INDEPENDENT MEASUREMENT; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; NON-DIMENSIONAL VARIABLE; NONDIMENSIONAL; RADIAN FREQUENCY; ROUGHNESS LENGTH; WAVE DISPERSION; WAVE PARAMETERS; WAVE SPECTRA;

DRAG COEFFICIENT;

DRAG;

CORRELATION; DATA SET; DRAG COEFFICIENT; FRICTION; OCEAN WAVE; WAVE DISPERSION; WAVELENGTH; WIND WAVE;

EID: 73849088102     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JPO4189.1     Document Type: Article

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