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Journal Article
Estimates of the Breaking Strength Parameter for Individual Oceanic Whitecaps
2025
Overview
The purpose of this study is to present the first estimates of the breaking strength parameter, b$b$ , for individual oceanic whitecaps. This is achieved by combining the estimates of the dissipation rate per unit breaking crest length for these whitecaps reported in Callaghan et al. (2024, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023jc020193) with a measure of the whitecap breaking wave speed to implement the Duncan (1981, https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1981.0127) relationship. The resulting values of b$b$span the range of previously reported laboratory values. Moreover, average values of b$b$are in excellent agreement with previous field‐derived average values using different approaches. The results suggest that making routine estimates of b$b$for individual whitecaps is now possible. This opens up new possibilities for how the fifth moment of Phillips' Λ(c)${\\Lambda }(c)$distribution of breaking wave crests can be better constrained to estimate the total dissipation rate of energy by oceanic whitecaps.
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc
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