Abstract: The influence of the directional distribution of wave energy on the dispersion relation is calculated numerically using various directional wave spectrum models. The results indicate that the dispersion relation varies ...

Abstract: A new coastal wave model is being developed to study air?sea interaction processes in the coastal region. The kinematics of this model, which govern the wave propagation, are reported. This new model is based on the action ...

Abstract: To select a wind wave model as the basis for developing a coupled wind wave-current model for coastal dynamics, the numerical schemes used in state-of-the-art wind wave models are examined analytically. The schemes used ...

Abstract: Laboratory measurements utilizing a laser probe are made for the slopes of wind waves generated on both positive and negative currents at different values of fetch. The data are then processed electronically to yield an ...

Abstract: The problem of a small-amplitude wave propagating over a flat porous bed is reanalyzed subject to the bottom boundary conditionwhere u represents the horizontal velocity in the fluid,?s represents the horizontal velocity ...

Abstract: The significant slope of a random wave field is found to be an important parameter in empirical wind-wave studies. This significant slope Ss is defined as Ss = (?2)½/?0, with ?2 as the mean-square surface elevation and ?0 ...

Abstract: Fourteen years (1980?93) of National Aeronautics and Space Administration reanalysis data are used to document and study the variability in the development of the South Asian summer monsoon associated with the Intraseasonal ...

Abstract: Interactions between steady non-uniform currents and gravity waves are generalized to include the case of a random gravity wave field. The Kitaigorodskii-Pierson-Moskowitz frequency spectrum is used as the basic spectral ...

Abstract: This study examines the nature of episodes of enhanced warm-season moisture flux into the Gulf of California. Both spatial structure and primary time scales of the fluxes are examined using the 40-yr ECMWF Re-Analysis data ...

Abstract: ignal detection from noisy data by rejecting a noise null hypothesis depends critically on a priori assumptions regarding the background noise and the associated statistical methods. Rejecting one kind of noise null ...