Open AccessREVISED WAVE FORECASTING RELATIONSHIPS
Author(s) -
Charles L. Bretschneider
Publication year - 1951
Publication title -
proceedings of conference on coastal engineering/proceedings of ... conference on coastal engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2156-1028
pISSN - 0589-087X
DOI - 10.9753/icce.v2.1
Subject(s) - dimensionless quantity , sverdrup , meteorology , geology , wind wave , climatology , geophysics , environmental science , physics , mechanics , oceanography , arctic
Data on the generation and decay of wind-generated gravity waves have been collected for several years by the University of California. These data together with the original data by Sverdrup and Munk have been analyzed, and the results were presented in dimensionless graphs suitable for use in wave forecasting (Bretschneider, 1951). No analysis was made of the effect of following or opposing winds.