Waves in the Red Sea: Response to monsoonal and mountain gap winds

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 65, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-13

  Ralston, David K ^a   Jiang, Houshuo ^a   Farrar, J Thomas ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Model grid resolution; Mountain gap winds; Red Sea; Spectral wave model; Unstructured grid; Wind waves

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CONVERGENCE; MONSOON; MOUNTAIN REGION; RIFT ZONE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; WAVE CLIMATE; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE MODELING; WIND FORCING; WIND WAVE;

INDIAN OCEAN; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN];

EID: 84880108053     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2013.05.017     Document Type: Article

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