Breaking Probability for Dominant Waves on the Sea Surface

摘要: Abstract The breaking probability is investigated for the dominant surface waves observed in three geographically diverse natural bodies of water: Lake Washington, Black Sea, and Southern Ocean. taken as average number passing a fixed point per wave period. data covered particularly wide range wavelengths (3–300 m) wind speeds (5–20 m s−1). In all cases, events were detected visually. It was found that traditional approach relating to speed or age provided reasonable correlations within individual datasets, but when datasets are combined, these significantly degraded. Motivated by results recent computational studies onset groups, authors hypothesis nonlinear hydrodynamic processes associated with groups more fundamental process than previously advocated aerod...