Abstract: Evidence has recently accumulated that stably stratified regions of the ocean and atmosphere often consist of a series of layers of nearly uniform density separated by steps in which the gradient is large. It is shown that ...

Abstract: Recent ideas on the structure of the equilibrium range of wind-generated ocean waves are applied to the question of radar backscattered returns from the sea surface. It is shown that the backscattering cross section can ...

Abstract: This paper is concerned with the patterns in the degree of saturation of short wind-generated waves (at scales much smaller than those of the spectral peak but large compared with the capillary scales) that are produced ...

Abstract: This paper is concerned with the expected configuration in space and time surrounding extremely high crests in a random wave field, or, equivalently, the mean configuration averaged over realizations of extreme events. A ...

Abstract: In a previous paper (Phillips et al.) an approximate theory was developed that predicted that the expected configuration of extreme waves in a random sea (or the average configuration of an ensemble of extreme waves) is ...

Abstract: A set of X-band radar measurements, backscattered from the sea surface at near grazing incidence with very high spatial and temporal resolution (30 cm in range and 2000-Hz pulse repetition frequency) in moderate wind ...