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Measurements of Waves in a Wind-wave Tank Under Steady and Time-varying Wind Forcing
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Sign of the wind vector: a simple method for its determination with a homodyne cw laser Doppler velocimeter

D Hausamann, B W Davis

    Applied Optics
    |June 23, 2010
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