Wave breaking in directional fields

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 145-156

  Babanin, A V ^a   Waseda, T ^b   Kinoshita, T ^b   Toffoli, A ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Experimental design; Gravity waves; Laboratory physical models; Oceanic; Wave breaking; Wave properties; Waves

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; LABORATORY/PHYSICAL MODELS; OCEANIC; WAVE BREAKING; WAVE PROPERTIES;

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; HYDRODYNAMICS; STATISTICS; WAVES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; GRAVITY WAVE; LABORATORY METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; WAVE BREAKING; WAVE FIELD; WAVE PROPERTY;

EID: 79951637478     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JPO4455.1     Document Type: Article

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