"Shamal" swells in the Arabian Sea and their influence along the west coast of India

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Aboobacker, V M ^a   Vethamony, P ^a   Rashmi, R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

ARABIAN SEA; MEAN PERIOD; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PRE-MONSOON; PROPAGATION DIRECTION; WAVE CHARACTERISTICS; WAVE DATA; WAVE HEIGHTS; WEST COAST; WIND SEA; WINTER SEASONS;

WIND;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERIODICITY; SWELL; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ARABIAN PENINSULA; ARABIAN SEA; DWARKA; GOA; GUJARAT; INDIA; INDIAN OCEAN; MAHARASHTRA; RATNAGIRI;

EID: 79751516759     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL045736     Document Type: Article

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