Modulation of short wind waves by long waves

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 115, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Donelan, Mark A ^a   Haus, Brian K ^a   Plant, William J ^b   Troianowski, Olivier ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c Saunier and Associes   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MODULATION; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION; WAVES;

ENERGY DENSITY; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LONG WAVES; ORBITAL VELOCITIES; SHORT WAVES; SHORT WIND WAVES; SOURCE TERMS; WAVE PERIOD; WAVE PHASE; WIND INPUT; WIND SPEED;

WIND POWER;

AIRFLOW; DISSIPATION; LABORATORY METHOD; ORBITAL FORCING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SLOPE; SPECTRUM; WAVE ENERGY; WAVELET; WIND VELOCITY; WIND WAVE;

EID: 77957730341     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JC005794     Document Type: Article

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