OBSERVATIONS OF THE HIGH-FREQUENCY RANGE OF THE WAVE SPECTRUM

This paper takes a new look at the high-frequency range of the wave sp ectrum. The analysis is based on data sets from two recent field campa igns offshore Portugal and Crete carried out in the MAST II WAVEMOD pr oject, data from the WADIC experiment in the North Sea, and deep-sea d ata from Haltenbanken and Voringplataet offshore Norway. In addition, we also show spectra obtained by spectral inversion of ERS-1 SAR image ry. The influence and calibration of wave-measuring instrumentation an d the use of wavenumber spectra when comparing spectra from shallow wa ter is emphasized.