Wind and waves in extreme hurricanes

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Holthuijsen, Leo H ^a   Powell, Mark D ^b   Pietrzak, Julie D ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HURRICANES; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND EFFECTS;

AIR-SEA INTERFACE; BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; CLIMATE RESEARCH; HIGH VELOCITY; HIGH WIND SPEED; HIGH WINDS; HURRICANE FORECASTING; LARGE REGIONS; LIMITING VALUES; OCEAN SURFACES; PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT; SURFACE WIND SPEED; WHITE CAPPING; WHITE CAPS; WIND SPEED; WIND SPEED-UP;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

AERODYNAMICS; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE PREDICTION; HURRICANE; SEA SURFACE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WAVE BREAKING; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84865780003     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JC007983     Document Type: Article

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