Experimental Study on wind-wave momentum flux in strongly forced conditions

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1328-1344

  Savelyev, Ivan B ^a   Haus, Brian K ^a   Donelan, Mark A ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluxes; Forcing; Momentum; Wind waves

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; BREAKING WAVES; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FORCING; HIGH WINDS; HURRICANE FORECASTING; LABORATORY CONDITIONS; MIXED-LAYER MODELS; MOMENTUM FLUX; QUANTITATIVE DESCRIPTION; STATIC PRESSURE; STRONG WINDS; WAVE AMPLITUDES; WAVE MODELS; WAVE NUMBERS; WAVE SHAPE; WAVE STEEPNESS; WIND FORCING; WIND SPEED; WIND WAVES;

MOMENTUM TRANSFER; WEATHER FORECASTING;

MOMENTUM;

AIRFLOW; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; BREAKING WAVE; HURRICANE; MIXED LAYER; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEAN WAVE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STORM; WIND WAVE;

EID: 84860416311     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JPO4577.1     Document Type: Article

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