@Article{FariasLoreChap:2012:SwWiDi,
               author = "Farias, Eduardo G. G. de and Lorenzzetti, Joao Antonio and 
                         Chapron, Bertrand",
          affiliation = "{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto 
                         Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and Laboratoire 
                         d’Oc{\'e}anographie Spatiale, Institut Fran{\c{c}}ais de 
                         Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER), 70 29280 
                         Plouzan{\'e}, France",
                title = "Swell and Wind-Sea Distributions over the Mid-Latitude and 
                         Tropical North Atlantic for the Period 2002 2008",
              journal = "International Journal of Oceanography",
                 year = "2012",
               volume = "2012",
               number = "Article ID 306723",
                pages = "1--8",
                 note = "{Setores de Atividade: Educa{\c{c}}{\~a}o.}",
             keywords = "Waves, Swell, Wind-Sea, Tropical Atlantic.",
             abstract = "We present an analysis of wind-sea and swell fields for 
                         mid-latitude and tropical Atlantic for the period 20022008 using a 
                         combination of satellite data (altimeter significant wave height 
                         and scatterometer surface winds) and model results (spectrum peak 
                         wave period and propagation direction). Results show a dominance 
                         of swell over wind-sea regimes throughout the year. A small but 
                         clear decrease in swell energy and an associated increase in 
                         wind-sea potential growth were observed in the NE trade winds 
                         zone. A seasonal summertime increase in wind-sea energy in the 
                         Amazon River mouth and adjacent shelf region and in African coast 
                         was apparent in the results, probably associated to a 
                         strengthening of the alongshore trade winds in these regions. 
                         Albeit with a significantly smaller energy contribution of 
                         wind-seas as compared to swell energy, we could say that a kind of 
                         mixed seas is more evident in the trade winds region, with the 
                         remaining area being highly dominated by swell energy. An analysis 
                         of wave-age shows the absence of young-seas. Only ~2% of all data 
                         points was classified as wind-sea, a classification confirmed by a 
                         fit to a theoretical relation between wind speed, peak period, and 
                         significant wave height for fully developed wind-seas.",
                  doi = "10.1155/2012/306723",
                  url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/306723",
                 issn = "1687-9406",
                label = "lattes: 3852581196429739 2 FariasLoreChap:2012:SwWiDi",
             language = "en",
        urlaccessdate = "02 maio 2024"
}