Global Information Lookup Global Information

Wave base information


Wave base diagram.

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 than the wave base, bottom sediments and the seafloor are no longer stirred by the wave motion above.[1]

  1. ^ R. G. Dean & R. A. Dalrymple (1991). Water wave mechanics for engineers and scientists. Advanced Series on Ocean Engineering. Vol. 2. World Scientific, Singapore. ISBN 978-981-02-0420-4.

and 26 Related for: Wave base information

Request time (Page generated in 0.8293 seconds.)

Wave base

Last Update:

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...

Word Count : 429

Wave

Last Update:

where the wave amplitude appears smaller or even zero. Waves are often described by a wave equation (standing wave field of two opposite waves) or a one-way...

Word Count : 7928

Wind wave

Last Update:

In fluid 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...

Word Count : 6141

Rogue wave

Last Update:

Rogue waves (also known as freak waves, monster waves, episodic waves, killer waves, extreme waves, and abnormal waves) are unusually large and unpredictable...

Word Count : 12298

Index of wave articles

Last Update:

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...

Word Count : 37

Wave equation

Last Update:

The wave equation is a second-order linear partial differential equation for the description of waves or standing wave fields such as mechanical waves (e...

Word Count : 10120

Google Wave

Last Update:

renamed to Apache Wave when the project was adopted by the Apache Software Foundation as an incubator project in 2010. Wave is a web-based computing platform...

Word Count : 3229

Carbonate platform

Last Update:

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...

Word Count : 3833

No wave

Last Update:

No wave was an avant-garde music genre and visual art scene which emerged in the late 1970s in Downtown New York City. The term was a pun based on the...

Word Count : 3032

Gravitational wave

Last Update:

Gravitational waves are waves of the intensity of gravity that are generated by the accelerated masses of binary stars and other motions of gravitating...

Word Count : 12635

Lower shoreface

Last Update:

the sedimentary depositional environment, that lies below the everyday wave base. It is also used for the sandstone sedimentary structure rock formations...

Word Count : 152

Standing wave

Last Update:

In physics, a standing wave, also known as a stationary wave, is a wave that oscillates in time but whose peak amplitude profile does not move in space...

Word Count : 6571

Wave Rock

Last Update:

Wave Rock (Nyungar: Katter Kich) is a natural rock formation that is shaped like a tall breaking ocean wave. The "wave" is about 15 m (50 ft) high and...

Word Count : 1066

Wave function

Last Update:

wave function (or wavefunction) is a mathematical description of the quantum state of an isolated quantum system. The most common symbols for a wave function...

Word Count : 13534

Physical oceanography

Last Update:

and amplitudes in the tens of meters. Rossby Waves Rossby waves, or planetary waves are huge, slow waves generated in the troposphere by temperature differences...

Word Count : 3729

New wave music

Last Update:

New wave is a music genre that encompasses pop-oriented styles from the 1970s through the 1980s. It is considered a lighter and more melodic "broadening...

Word Count : 6514

Dark wave

Last Update:

and synthesizer-based new wave music. The term darkwave originated in the 1980s as an indicator of the dark counterpart of new wave. Bands such as Siouxsie...

Word Count : 2029

The Great Wave off Kanagawa

Last Update:

The Great Wave off Kanagawa (Japanese: 神奈川沖浪裏, Hepburn: Kanagawa-oki Nami Ura, lit. 'Under the Wave off Kanagawa') is a woodblock print by Japanese ukiyo-e...

Word Count : 5965

Electromagnetic radiation

Last Update:

In physics, electromagnetic radiation (EMR) consists of waves of the electromagnetic (EM) field, which propagate through space and carry momentum and...

Word Count : 9550

Wave power

Last Update:

desalination, or pumping water. A machine that exploits wave power is a wave energy converter (WEC). Waves are generated primarily by wind passing over the sea's...

Word Count : 6023

Tempestite

Last Update:

form in wave-dominated delta systems and preserve, within the sedimentary record, evidence of events and processes below fair weather wave base and above...

Word Count : 830

Seismic wave

Last Update:

A seismic wave is a mechanical wave of acoustic energy that travels through the Earth or another planetary body. It can result from an earthquake (or...

Word Count : 2384

The Wave

Last Update:

wave in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Wave may refer to: The Wave (1981 film), a TV movie based on The Third Wave social experiment The Wave (2008...

Word Count : 492

CoMix Wave Films

Last Update:

CoMix Wave Films, Inc. (Japanese: 株式会社コミックス・ウェーブ・フィルム, Hepburn: Kabushiki-gaisha Komikkusu Uēbu Firumu) is a Japanese animation film studio and distribution...

Word Count : 112

Heat wave

Last Update:

wave (or heatwave), sometimes described as extreme heat, is a period of abnormally hot weather.: 2911  Definitions vary but are similar. A heat wave is...

Word Count : 6958

Gravity wave

Last Update:

called a wave orbit. Gravity waves on an air–sea interface of the ocean are called surface gravity waves (a type of surface wave), while gravity waves that...

Word Count : 2266

PDF Search Engine © AllGlobal.net