fluid dynamics, wind wave modeling describes the effort to depict the sea state and predict the evolution of the energy of wind waves using numerical...
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dynamics, a wind wave, or wind-generated water wave, is a surface wave that occurs on the free surface of bodies of water as a result of the wind blowing...
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of a physical wave. Wave model can refer to: Wind wave model, a mathematical model of sea waves Density wave model, a mathematical model of a spiral galaxy...
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that between the atmosphere and the ocean, which gives rise to wind waves. A gravity wave results when fluid is displaced from a position of equilibrium...
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Wind-wave dissipation or "swell dissipation" is process in which a wave generated via a weather system loses its mechanical energy transferred from the...
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RSMCs use wind-wave models as tools to help predict the sea conditions. In the U.S., NOAA's Wavewatch III model is used heavily. A significant wave height...
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lee waves are produced when the lapse rate shows a stable layer above the obstruction, with an unstable layer above and below. Strong winds (with wind gusts...
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Metocean (redirect from Metocean model)
long-term wave data available in a nearby offshore location (e.g. from satellites), a wind wave model can be employed to transform the offshore wave statistics...
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Wave power is the capture of energy of wind waves to do useful work – for example, electricity generation, water desalination, or pumping water. A machine...
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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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Infragravity waves are surface gravity waves with frequencies lower than the wind waves – consisting of both wind sea and swell – thus corresponding with...
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Rogue waves (also known as freak waves, monster waves, episodic waves, killer waves, extreme waves, and abnormal waves) are huge and unpredictable surface...
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significant wind stress on its surface, and this forces large-scale currents in the ocean. Through the wind stress, the wind generates ocean surface waves; the...
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surveillance technology for air traffic management WAM, a kind of wind wave model WAM (Emirates news agency), a news agency in the United Arab Emirates...
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the conservation of wave action is for instance used extensively in wind wave models to forecast sea states as needed by mariners, the offshore industry...
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Patterns in nature (section Waves, dunes)
contexts and can sometimes be modelled mathematically. Natural patterns include symmetries, trees, spirals, meanders, waves, foams, tessellations, cracks...
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Zhen-Gang (2001-05-01). "Calibration and verification of a spectral wind–wave model for Lake Okeechobee". Ocean Engineering. 28 (5): 571–584. doi:10...
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Pattern (section Waves, dunes)
French, A.P. Vibrations and Waves. Nelson Thornes, 1971.[full citation needed] Tolman, H.L. (2008). "Practical wind wave modeling" (PDF). In Mahmood, M.F...
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Swell (ocean) (category Water waves)
surface gravity waves. These surface gravity waves have their origin as wind waves, but are the consequence of dispersion of wind waves from distant weather...
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ramp above the fair weather wave base, the middle ramp, above the storm wave base, the outer ramp, below the storm wave base. In distally steepened ramps...
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Tollmien–Schlichting wave, in fluid dynamics Wind wave Bloch's theorem Matter wave Pilot wave theory, in Bohmian mechanics Wave function Wave packet Wave–particle...
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Wind is the natural movement of air or other gases relative to a planet's surface. Winds occur on a range of scales, from thunderstorm flows lasting tens...
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meaning it moves faster than the speed of fast magnetosonic waves. The flow of the solar wind is no longer supersonic at the termination shock. Other related...
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one-dimensional Saint-Venant equations shallow water equations Wind fetch Wind setup Wind wave model Circulation Atmospheric circulation Baroclinity Boundary...
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would test out scale models of their cars, but later, full scale automotive wind tunnels were built. Starting in the 1960s, wind tunnel testing began...
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Seiche (redirect from Underwater wave)
waves, which are due to subharmonic nonlinear wave interaction with the wind waves, having periods longer than the accompanying wind-generated waves....
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with a distinct forward curve. At this point, simple physical models that describe wave dynamics often become invalid, particularly those that assume...
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corresponds to uniform circular motion. Sine waves occur often in physics, including wind waves, sound waves, and light waves, such as monochromatic radiation. In...
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is affected by wind shear, which can bend the wave front, causing sounds to be heard where they normally would not. Strong vertical wind shear within the...
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in Leeuwarden) is the original developer of the WAVEWATCH III (tm) wind wave model. Tolman studied civil engineering at Delft University of Technology...
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