Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Definitions for wave breaking
- 3 Detection and measurement of wave breaking
- 4 Fully nonlinear analytical theories for surface waves and numerical simulations of wave breaking
- 5 Wave-breaking probability
- 6 Wave-breaking severity
- 7 Energy dissipation across the wave spectrum
- 8 Non-dissipative effects of breaking on the wave field
- 9 Role of wave breaking in the air–sea interaction
- 10 Conclusions. What else do we need to know about wave breaking?
- References
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 October 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Definitions for wave breaking
- 3 Detection and measurement of wave breaking
- 4 Fully nonlinear analytical theories for surface waves and numerical simulations of wave breaking
- 5 Wave-breaking probability
- 6 Wave-breaking severity
- 7 Energy dissipation across the wave spectrum
- 8 Non-dissipative effects of breaking on the wave field
- 9 Role of wave breaking in the air–sea interaction
- 10 Conclusions. What else do we need to know about wave breaking?
- References
- Index
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- Breaking and Dissipation of Ocean Surface Waves , pp. i - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011