Two regimes of laboratory whitecap foam decay: Bubble-plume controlled and surfactant stabilized

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1114-1126

  Callaghan, Adrian H ^a,b   Deane, Grant B ^a   Stokes, M Dale ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAKING WAVES; DECAY TIME; DIGITAL IMAGE; LABORATORY STUDIES; OCEAN CONDITIONS; SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHIES; SURFACE ACTIVE MATERIALS; SURFACTANT-STABILIZED;

EXPERIMENTS; SEAWATER; WATER WAVES;

SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

BUBBLE; DATA SET; FOAM; LABORATORY METHOD; SEAWATER; SURFACTANT;

EID: 84880140100     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-12-0148.1     Document Type: Article

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