Energy dissipation of unsteady wave breaking on currents

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2288-2304

  Yao, Aifeng ^a   Wu, Chin H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DOPPLER EFFECT; ENERGY DISSIPATION; KINEMATICS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

FREQUENCY COMPONENTS; PARANETERIZATION; SPECTRUM SLOPES; WAVE CONDITIONS;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

ENERGY DISSIPATION; WAVE BREAKING; WAVE-CURRENT INTERACTION;

EID: 8744233782     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2004)034<2288:EDOUWB>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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