The Ocean Surface

Nonlinear wave dynamics.- A New Way to Calculate Steep Gravity Waves.- Nonlinear Water Wave Theory Via Pressure Formulation.- Particle Trajectories in Nonlinear Capillary Waves.- Wave Breaking and Nonlinear Instability Coupling.- Stability of a Random Inhomogeneous Field of Weakly Nonlinear Surface Gravity Waves with Application to the JONSWAP Study.- Initial Instability and Long-Time Evolution of Stokes Waves.- On Non-Linear Water Wave Groups and the Induced Mean Flow.- Numerical and Experimental Analysis of Nonlinear Deformation of Ocean Waves on 2-D and 3-D Sandbars.- Wave generation.- On the Growth of Gravity-Capillary Waves by Wind.- Nonlinear Waves in a Developing Process.- The Effect of Short Waves on the Transfer of Wind Momentum to Long Water Waves.- Measurements of Atmospheric Pressure over Surface Gravity Waves during KonTur.- Atmospheric Stability Effects on the Growth of Surface Gravity Waves.- New Aspects of the Turbulent Boundary Layer over Wind Waves.- Wave dynamics, wave statistics and wave modeling.- Spectral Characteristics of Breaking Waves.- The Fully Developed Wind-Sea Spectrum as a Solution of the Energy Balance Equation.- The Kinematics of Short Wave Modulation by Long Waves.- The Effect of Surface Contamination on the Drift Velocity of Water Waves.- Mathematical Modeling of Breaking Wave Statistics.- Numerical Modeling of Current-Wave Interaction.- Measurement and Analysis of Surface Waves in A Strong Current.- In Search of Universal Parametric Correlations for Wind Waves.- Sea-State Cycles.- Wave models.- On the Effect of Bottom Friction on Wind Sea.- A Parametric Wind Wave Model for Arbitrary Water Depths.- Shallow Water Intercomparison of Wave Models Part I Three Different Concepts to Model Surface Waves in Finite Water Depth.- Shallow Water Intercomparison of Wave Models Part II Results of Three Different Wave Models for Idealized Wind and Depth Situations.- Shallow Water Intercomparison of Wave Models Part III.- A Coupled Discrete Wave Model MRI-II.- The TOHOKU-II Wave Model.- Wave dynamics and microwave probing.- Microwave Sensing of the Ocean Surface.- On the Hydrodynamics of Small-Scale Breaking Waves and Their Microwave Reflectivity Properties.- The Nature of Microwave Backscattering from Water Waves.- The Wave Field Dynamics Inferred from HF Radar Sea-Echo.- Doppler Spectra of Microwave Radar Echo Returned from Calm and Rough Sea Surfaces.- Measurements of Directional Sea Wave Spectra Using a Two-Frequency Microwave Scatterometer.- Measurements of Ocean Wave Spectra and Modulation Transfer Function with the Airborne Two Frequency Scatterometer.- Radar, SAR, SLAR, scatterometry.- An Algorithm of Microwave Backscattering from a Perturbed Sea Surface.- The Dependence of the Microwave Radar Cross Section on the Air-Sea Interaction and the Wave Slope.- Preliminary Results of Dual Polarized Radar Sea Scatter.- SLAR and In-Situ Observations of Wave-Current Interaction on the Columbia River Bar.- On the Effects of Ocean Surface Roughness on Emissivity and Reflectivity of Microwave Radiation.- Experimental Results of Sea-Surface Scattering by Airborne Microwave Scatterometer/Radiometer.- Radio Probing of Ocean Surface by Observing Multipath Fading Signal.- Scatterometry and altimetry case studies.- Effect of Wave-Current Interaction on the Determination of Volume Scattering Function of Microwave at Sea Surface.- Surface Ocean Circulation and Variability Determined from Satellite Altimetry.- Application of the Seasat Altimeter Data for Estimations of Sea Surface Height and Ocean Tide in the Northwest Pacific Ocean.- Remote sensor development.- MIROS A Microwave Remote Sensor for the Ocean Surface.- The Design of Spaceborne Microwave Scatterometer.- On-Board Processing of Microwave Altimeter.- Simulation of Wind-Vector Estimation Design Evaluation of Microwave Scatterometer -.- Drift current, wave breaking and turbulence.- Wind Waves and Wind-Generated Turbulence in the Water.- The Vertical