FY 1987

The age and source of ocean swell observed in Hurricane Josephine

González, F.I., B.M. Holt, and D.G. Tilley

J. Hopkins APL Tech. Dig., 8(1), 94–99 (1987)

The SIR-B mission has yielded exceptionally valuable swell observations in the far field of Hurricane Josephine. This article applies a very simple kinematic model to provide estimates of the swell origin in space and time.