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In spite of many years of theoretical efforts to gain insight into the mechanics of breaking waves, a more complete understanding of wave breaking and its onset as well as energy dissipated during breaking is still lacking (Banner and Grimshaw, 1992).
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Massel, S.R. (2007). Experimental insights into mechanisms of wave breaking. In: Ocean Waves Breaking and Marine Aerosol Fluxes. ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANOGRAPHIC SCIENCES LIBRARY, vol 38. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-69092-6_4
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