title: Estimation of the “whitecap” lifetime of breaking wave
abstract: The paper presents the results of a study of the lifetime of wind-wave breaking (“whitecaps”) and the spatial distribution of the moments of wave-breaking initiation along the profile of a long surface wave. The results obtained during the specialized experiments from an oceanographic platform in the Black Sea are given. The registration of the whitecaps was carried out based on the video recordings of the sea surface. The surface waves’ characteristics were measured and the meteorological infor
journal: Fundamental and Applied Hydrophysics