A Global climatology of wind-wave interaction

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1263-1282

  Hanley, Kirsty E ^a   Belcher, Stephen E ^a   Sullivan, Peter P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Climatology; Wind; Wind waves

Indexed keywords

DEGREE OF COUPLING; GLOBAL CLIMATOLOGY; GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL OCEAN; HIGHER LATITUDES; LONG WAVELENGTH; MIDLATITUDES; MOMENTUM FLUX; NEAR-SURFACE WINDS; NON EQUILIBRIUM; OCEAN WAVES; SIGN REVERSAL; STORM TRACK; SURFACE WIND SPEED; SURFACE WINDS; WAVE AGE; WAVEFIELDS; WIND REGIME; WIND SPEED; WIND WAVES; WIND-DRIVEN WAVES; WIND-WAVE INTERACTION;

OCEANOGRAPHY; SPEED; STORMS; WATER WAVES; WAVES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATOLOGY; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; SURFACE WIND; WAVE VELOCITY; WIND VELOCITY; WIND WAVE; WIND-WAVE INTERACTION;

EID: 77955608288     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JPO4377.1     Document Type: Article

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