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The damping of a group of sea waves

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The signals from a wave probe, a buoy-mounted sensor at the water surface, and a three-component sonic anemometer were recorded during the passage of a discrete group of waves which were travelling against a light wind. Cross spectra between the wave signals and the pressure and sonic anemometer signals were obtained and are interpreted.

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Bedford Institute contribution No. 226.

This work forms part of a Ph.D. dissertation at the Institute of Oceanography, University of British Columbia.

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Dobson, F.W. The damping of a group of sea waves. Boundary-Layer Meteorol 1, 399–410 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00184780

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