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The Ocean Surface

Wave Breaking, Turbulent Mixing and Radio Probing

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  • © 1985

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Editors:
  1. Yoshiaki Toba

    1. Department of Geophysics, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

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  2. Hisashi Mitsuyasu

    1. Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

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Table of contents (77 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Nonlinear wave dynamics

    1. A New Way to Calculate Steep Gravity Waves

      • M. S. Longuet-Higgins
      Pages 1-15

    2. Nonlinear Water Wave Theory Via Pressure Formulation

      • W. H. Hui, G. Tenti
      Pages 17-24

    3. Particle Trajectories in Nonlinear Capillary Waves

      • S. J. Hogan
      Pages 25-30

    4. Wave Breaking and Nonlinear Instability Coupling

      • M.-Y. Su, A. W. Green
      Pages 31-38

    5. Stability of a Random Inhomogeneous Field of Weakly Nonlinear Surface Gravity Waves with Application to the JONSWAP Study

      • Peter A. E. M. Janssen
      Pages 39-49

    6. Initial Instability and Long-Time Evolution of Stokes Waves

      • L. Shemer, M. Stiassnie
      Pages 51-57

    7. On Non-Linear Water Wave Groups and the Induced Mean Flow

      • H. Tomita
      Pages 59-64

    8. Numerical and Experimental Analysis of Nonlinear Deformation of Ocean Waves on 2-D and 3-D Sandbars

      • T. Hino, H. Miyata, H. Kajitani
      Pages 65-70

  3. Wave generation

    1. On the Growth of Gravity-Capillary Waves by Wind

      • Klaartje van Gastel, Peter A. E. M. Janssen, Gerbrand J. Komen
      Pages 71-75

    2. Nonlinear Waves in a Developing Process

      • Y. L. Yuan, N. E. Huang, C. C. Tung
      Pages 77-86

    3. The Effect of Short Waves on the Transfer of Wind Momentum to Long Water Waves

      • M. T. Landahl
      Pages 87-94

    4. Measurements of Atmospheric Pressure over Surface Gravity Waves during KonTur

      • D. Hasselmann, M. Dunckel, J. Bösenberg
      Pages 95-97

    5. Atmospheric Stability Effects on the Growth of Surface Gravity Waves

      • Peter A. E. M. Janssen, Gerbrand J. Komen
      Pages 99-104

    6. New Aspects of the Turbulent Boundary Layer over Wind Waves

      • H. Kawamura, Y. Toba
      Pages 105-110

  4. Wave dynamics, wave statistics and wave modeling

    1. Spectral Characteristics of Breaking Waves

      • O. M. Phillips
      Pages 111-123

    2. The Fully Developed Wind-Sea Spectrum as a Solution of the Energy Balance Equation

      • G. J. Kamen, S. Hasselmann, K. Hasselmann
      Pages 125-128

    3. The Kinematics of Short Wave Modulation by Long Waves

      • David E. Irvine
      Pages 129-134

    4. The Effect of Surface Contamination on the Drift Velocity of Water Waves

      • Kewal K. Puri, Bryan R. Pearce
      Pages 135-143

    5. Mathematical Modeling of Breaking Wave Statistics

      • Roman E. Glazman
      Pages 145-150
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`...adequate and up-to-date view of the ocean remote sensing problem as a whole. Deep insight into the hydrodynamics aspects of the problem makes this book unique among other recent books on this and related subjects.'
Dynamics of Atmospheres & Oceans

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Geophysics, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

    Yoshiaki Toba

  • Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

    Hisashi Mitsuyasu

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Ocean Surface

  • Book Subtitle: Wave Breaking, Turbulent Mixing and Radio Probing

  • Editors: Yoshiaki Toba, Hisashi Mitsuyasu

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7717-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 1985

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2021-4Published: 30 June 1985

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8415-6Published: 30 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-7717-5Published: 17 April 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 586

  • Topics: Oceanography, Atmospheric Sciences

  • Industry Sectors: Energy, Utilities & Environment

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