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Directional spectrum of wind-generated ocean waves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

Mahinder S. Uberoi
Affiliation:
Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences and the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, University of Colorado, Boulder, and Department of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Abstract

Two sets of published data on an area 2700ft. by 1800ft. of sea surface in the North Atlantic are analysed by an optical computer which gives directly the directional spectrum. The results are compared with (i) those of other investigators obtained laboriously by using a digital computer, (ii) the frequency spectrum, and (iii) an empirical prediction.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1964 Cambridge University Press

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