Laboratory Experiments on the Effects of a Variable Current Field on the Spectral Geometry of Water Waves

Henrique Rapizo; Takuji Waseda; Alexander V Babanin; Alessandro Toffoli

Journal article

Laboratory Experiments on the Effects of a Variable Current Field on the Spectral Geometry of Water Waves

Henrique Rapizo, Takuji Waseda, Alexander V Babanin, Alessandro Toffoli

Journal of Physical Oceanography | AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC | Published : 2016

DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-16-0011.1

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Funding Acknowledgements

We thank the support and assistance of Mr. Itakura and Kent Mozumbi during the experiments in the University of Tokyo wave tank. We are thankful to Amin Chabchoub for the advice and help on the experimental setup. The support of ONR Grant N000141310278 and of the Australian Research Council through Discovery Grant DP130100227 is acknowledged by A.V.B.; T.W. and A.T acknowledge support from the JSPS Fellowship for Research in Japan Program, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research of the JSPS, and the International Science Linkages (ISL) Program of the Australian Academy of Science. The first author is thankful for support from the Australian Victorian Government through the Victorian International Research Scholarship.