Abstract: Ocean waves of high frequency (from about 10 to 200 rad sec?1) were observed by means of a thin capacitance-type wave gage. The representative rms height, hp, of the sea-surface irregularities associated with the high-frequency ...

Abstract: Radar echo images demonstrate that mature tropical cyclones frequently have a concentric eyewall structure, which consists of the inner eyewall, echo-free moat, and outer eyewall regions. Near the inner and outer eyewalls, ...

Abstract: Thermodynamical observations by a helicopter have been conducted to study the internal structure of the sea breeze blowing inland from Tosa Bay during three periods (September 1993, November 1994 and 1995). Inland-intrusion ...

Abstract: An elliptical eye was observed in Typhoon Herb during its passage around the Sakishima Islands located in the southwest of the Okinawa Islands in Japan on 30?31 July 1996. Later analysis showed that this elliptical eye had ...