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Rogue waves - enormous, spontaneous surface waves in the open ocean - were once the tall tales of sailors. ... Oh, and when they combine trough-to-crest they cancel out.
A laser-equipped research platform has, for the first time, photographed airflow just millimeters above ocean waves, ...
An international research team led by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon has, for the first time, succeeded in visualizing and ...
The vertical distance between the crest and the trough tells you the wave's height. ... When the moon, rather than the wind, tugs on the ocean's surface, tidal waves form.
From the geometry of trochoids, surface water particles at the troughs on either side of the crest of a secondary wave will close up when this wave is riding on the crest of a primary one, and ...
Deep waves as seen from space. Deep currents as sensed from two miles under Antarctic waters. Both are rewriting what we know of the movement of oceanic waters.
However, in a general sense, moving low pressure centers at the surface tend to precede open-wave upper level troughs, with the location of the lowest pressure "tilting" with height toward the the ...