Observations on long waves sweeping through short waves

Jin Wu

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v23i4-5.10516

Observations on long waves sweeping through short waves

Tellus

Volume 23 (1971): Issue 4-5

By: Jin Wu

Open Access

|Jan 1971

Abstract

Glitter photographs illustrate an important phenomenon on interactions between short and long waves: long waves sweep through short waves, causing the short waves to break on the forward face of the long wave crests.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v23i4-5.10516 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554

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Language: English

Page range: 364 - 370

Submitted on: Nov 5, 1970

Published on: Jan 1, 1971

Published by: Stockholm University Press

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© 1971 Jin Wu, published by Stockholm University Press
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Volume 23 (1971): Issue 4-5