NOAA WAVEWATCH III (R) 120-hour Forecast for the North Atlantic
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In 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 techniques. These simulations consider atmospheric wind forcing, nonlinear wave interactions, and frictional dissipation, and they output statistics describing wave heights, periods, and propagation directions for regional seas or global oceans. Such wave hindcasts and wave forecasts are extremely important for commercial interests on the high seas.[1] For example, the shipping industry requires guidance for operational planning and tactical seakeeping purposes.[1]
For the specific case of predicting wind wave statistics on the ocean, the term ocean surface wave model is used.
Other applications, in particular coastal engineering, have led to the developments of wind wave models specifically designed for coastal applications.
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dynamics, a windwave, 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...
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...
use wind-wavemodels as tools to help predict the sea conditions. In the U.S., NOAA's WAVEWATCH III(R) model is used heavily. A significant wave height...
Wave power is the capture of energy of windwaves to do useful work – for example, electricity generation, water desalination, or pumping water. A machine...
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...
long-term wave data available in a nearby offshore location (e.g. from satellites), a windwavemodel can be employed to transform the offshore wave statistics...
Rogue waves (also known as freak waves, monster waves, episodic waves, killer waves, extreme waves, and abnormal waves) are unusually large and unpredictable...
surveillance technology for air traffic management WAM, a kind of windwavemodel WAM (Emirates news agency), a news agency in the United Arab Emirates...
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...
Infragravity waves are surface gravity waves with frequencies lower than the windwaves – consisting of both wind sea and swell – thus corresponding with...
Tidal wave, a scientifically incorrect name for a tsunami Tollmien–Schlichting wave, in fluid dynamics Windwave Bloch's theorem Matter wave Pilot wave theory...
with a distinct forward curve. At this point, simple physical models that describe wave dynamics often become invalid, particularly those that assume...
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...
corresponds to uniform circular motion. Sine waves occur often in physics, including windwaves, sound waves, and light waves, such as monochromatic radiation. In...
in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelling on high-speed digital computers has reduced the demand for wind tunnel testing, but has not completely...
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...
meaning it moves faster than the speed of the fast magnetosonic wave. The flow of the solar wind is no longer supersonic at the termination shock. Other related...
contexts and can sometimes be modelled mathematically. Natural patterns include symmetries, trees, spirals, meanders, waves, foams, tessellations, cracks...
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...
gases. The blast wave is followed by a blast wind of negative gauge pressure, which sucks items back in towards the center. The blast wave is harmful especially...
helm wind was carried out by Gordon Manley in the 1930s. He interpreted the phenomenon in hydrodynamic terms as a "standing wave" and "rotor", a model confirmed...
W. D.; Laske, G.; Masters, T. G. (1998). "CRUST 5.1: A global crustal model at 5°×5°". Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 103 (B1): 727–747...
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