Sporadic wind wave horse-shoe patterns

The work considers three-dimensional crescent-shaped patterns often seen on water surface in natural basins and observed in wave tank experiments. The most common of these 'horse-shoe-like' patterns appear to be sporadic, i.e., emerging and disappearing spontaneously even under steady wind...

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Main Authors: S. Yu. Annenkov, V. I. Shrira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 1999-01-01
Series:Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics
Online Access:http://www.nonlin-processes-geophys.net/6/27/1999/npg-6-27-1999.pdf