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    In fluid dynamics, wave shoaling is the effect by which surface waves, entering shallower water, change in wave height. It is caused by the fact that the...
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    increases and the distance between waves decreases. This behavior is called shoaling, and the waves are said to shoal. The waves may or may not build to the...
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    Tsunami (redirect from Tsunami wave train)
    devastated by a huge wave. As the tsunami approaches the coast and the waters become shallow, wave shoaling compresses the wave and its speed decreases...
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    effect: wave height changes due to wave shoaling and refraction. As the wave height increases, the wave may become unstable when the crest of the wave moves...
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  • town in the United States Wave shoaling, the change of wave height for sea waves propagating into shallow water Shoaling and schooling, ways that fish...
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    Shoaling and schooling In biology, any group of fish that stay together for social reasons are shoaling, and if the group is swimming in the same direction...
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  • mean water level before the waves break (during the shoaling process). For short, the whole phenomenon is often denoted as wave setup, including both increase...
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  • shoaling zone, surf zone and swash zone. In the shoaling zone, the wave nonlinearity increases due to the decreasing depth and the sinusoidal waves approaching...
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    foam Shoal (Peresyp) Steep coast Submergent coastline Surf break Surf zone Surge channel Swash Undertow Volcanic arc Wave-cut platform Wave shoaling Wind...
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  • Diffraction is one of the wave effects which can be described with Airy wave theory. Further, by using the WKBJ approximation, wave shoaling and refraction can...
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  • Trochoidal wave Tsunami megatsunami Undertow Ursell number Wave action Wave base Wave height Wave nonlinearity Wave power Wave radar Wave setup Wave shoaling Wave...
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  • This is a list of wave topics. Contents:  Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z...
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    crests closer together and increases the waves' height, which is called wave shoaling. When the ratio of the wave's height to the water depth increases above...
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    dynamics, an edge wave is a surface gravity wave fixed by refraction against a rigid boundary, often a shoaling beach. Progressive edge waves travel along...
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    elevation, and the spacing between groynes is determined according to local wave energy and beach slope. Groynes that are too long or too high tend to accelerate...
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  • long surface gravity waves on a fluid layer. Wave shoaling – Effect by which surface waves entering shallower water change in wave height The Maury Project:...
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    ocean surface waves approach shore, they get taller and break, forming the foamy, bubbly surface called surf. The region of breaking waves defines the surf...
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    The wave base, in physical oceanography, is the maximum depth at which a water wave's passage causes significant water motion. At water depths deeper...
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    processes, particularly wave action, sediment movement and weather, and the ways in which humans interact with the coast. The waves of different strengths...
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    Sea (section Waves)
    crests closer together and increases the waves' height, which is called wave shoaling. When the ratio of the wave's height to the water depth increases above...
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    break, or big wave break) is a permanent (or semi-permanent) obstruction such as a coral reef, rock, shoal, or headland that causes a wave to break, forming...
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    Azores is a high-energy wave climate, and the steep submarine slopes and absence of shallow shelves produce patterns of wave shoaling, refraction, and diffraction...
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    foam Shoal (Peresyp) Steep coast Submergent coastline Surf break Surf zone Surge channel Swash Undertow Volcanic arc Wave-cut platform Wave shoaling Wind...
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    solution subaerial processes suspension Tides Water waves diffraction refraction wave breaking wave shoaling Weathering Larger animals that live in coastal...
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  • strongest in the surf zone, where the water is shallow and the waves are high due to shoaling. In popular usage, the word undertow is often misapplied to...
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    Green's law (category Water waves)
    modelling of long shoaling waves on a beach, with "long" meaning wavelengths in excess of about twenty times the mean water depth. Tsunamis shoal (change their...
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    breaking wave or breaker is a wave with enough energy to "break" at its peak, reaching a critical level at which linear energy transforms into wave turbulence...
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    Trochoidal wave Tsunami megatsunami Undertow Ursell number Wave action Wave base Wave height Wave nonlinearity Wave power Wave radar Wave setup Wave shoaling Wave...
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    Trochoidal wave Tsunami megatsunami Undertow Ursell number Wave action Wave base Wave height Wave nonlinearity Wave power Wave radar Wave setup Wave shoaling Wave...
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    simulates wave generation, wave movement (propagation within a fluid), wave shoaling, refraction, energy transfer between waves, and wave dissipation. Since surface...
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