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Yoshiaki Toba
1. Department of Geophysics, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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Table of contents (77 chapters)

Front Matter

Pages i-xiii

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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
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
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

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Front Matter

Nonlinear wave dynamics

Wave generation

Wave dynamics, wave statistics and wave modeling

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Department of Geophysics, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

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

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