Enhanced freak wave occurrence with narrow directional spectrum in the North Sea

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 13, 2011, Pages

  Waseda, T ^a   Hallerstig, M ^a,b   Ozaki, K ^a   Tomita, H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c SOPHIA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECTIONAL SPECTRA; DIRECTIONAL SPREADING; FREAK WAVE; HINDCASTS; ICELANDICS; IN-SITU; NONLINEAR SELF-FOCUSING; NORTH SEA; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; RANDOM WAVES; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; THIRD GENERATION; WAVE MODELS; WAVE PARAMETERS; WAVE RECORDS; WAVE SPECTRA;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION; HINDCASTING; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; NONLINEAR WAVE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STORM SURGE; WAVE FIELD; WAVE GENERATION; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE SPECTRUM;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

EID: 79960219775     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047779     Document Type: Article

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