On energy balance in wind-driven seas
- 1 October 2011
- journal article
- Published by Pleiades Publishing Ltd in Doklady Earth Sciences
- Vol. 440 (2) , 1440-1444
Abstract
We show that in the energy balance in the wind-driven sea the process of four-wave nonlinear interaction plays the leading role. This process surpasses competing mechanisms-input energy from wind and...Keywords
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