Development of a bimodal structure in ocean wave spectra

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Toffoli, A ^a,b   Onorato, M ^c   Bitner Gregersen, E M ^a   Monbaliu, J ^d  

^a DNV GL   (Norway)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; EULER EQUATIONS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SPECTROSCOPY; WATER WAVES; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION; WAVE EQUATIONS;

BIMODAL STRUCTURES; DIRECTIONAL DISTRIBUTIONS; DIRECTIONAL WAVE SPECTRUM; EXTERNAL FORCING; FIELD MEASUREMENT; HIGH WAVE NUMBER; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OCEAN WAVE SPECTRA; OCEAN WAVES; SHORT WAVES; SPECTRAL CHANGE; SPECTRAL PEAK; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; UNIMODAL; WAVE ENERGY; WAVEFIELDS; WIND DIRECTIONS;

WIND POWER;

BREAKING WAVE; DISSIPATION; EULER FLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEAN WAVE; SIMULATION; WAVE SPECTRUM; WIND DIRECTION; WIND FORCING; WIND WAVE;

EID: 77953560710     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JC005495     Document Type: Article

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