Field measurements and scaling of ocean surface wave-breaking statistics

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3074-3079

  Sutherland, Peter ^a   Melville, W Kendall ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

breaking waves; dissipation; infrared; stereo; upper ocean turbulence; whitecap

Indexed keywords

BREAKING WAVES; FIELD MEASUREMENT; LENGTH DISTRIBUTIONS; RECONSTRUCTED SURFACES; STEREO; UPPER OCEAN; WAVE ENERGY DISSIPATION; WHITECAP;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); ENERGY DISSIPATION; IMAGE TEXTURE; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED IMAGING; INFRARED RADIATION; SURFACE WATERS; VELOCITY; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

WATER WAVES;

ALGORITHM; ENERGY DISSIPATION; INFRARED IMAGERY; OCEAN WAVE; RECONSTRUCTION; STEREO IMAGE; SURF ZONE; SURFACE WAVE; TURBULENCE; UPPER OCEAN; VIDEOGRAPHY; WAVE BREAKING; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 84880522007     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50584     Document Type: Article

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