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  • Thumbnail for Rogue wave
    winds and strong currents cause waves to merge to create a single huge wave. Recent research suggests sea state crest-trough correlation leading to linear...
    111 KB (12,342 words) - 19:56, 30 September 2024
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    Tsunami (redirect from Tsunami wave train)
    multiple waves arriving over a period of hours, with significant time between the wave crests. The first wave to reach the shore may not have the highest...
    63 KB (7,370 words) - 22:12, 27 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Breaking wave
    breaking of water surface waves on a coastline. Wave breaking generally occurs where the amplitude reaches the point that the crest of the wave actually...
    10 KB (1,280 words) - 00:05, 1 July 2024
  • list of rogue waves compiles incidents of known and likely rogue waves – also known as freak waves, monster waves, killer waves, and extreme waves. These...
    40 KB (4,948 words) - 19:28, 30 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wind wave
    associated with wave propagation are: Wave height (vertical distance from trough to crest) Wave length (distance from crest to crest in the direction of propagation)...
    49 KB (6,256 words) - 12:50, 9 October 2024
  • Its magnitude is the wavenumber of the wave (inversely proportional to the wavelength), and its direction is perpendicular to the wavefront. In isotropic...
    13 KB (2,135 words) - 01:53, 8 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Swell (ocean)
    Swell (ocean) (category Water waves)
    trough to crest) Wave length (from crest to crest) Wave period (time interval between arrival of consecutive crests at a stationary point) Wave propagation...
    21 KB (2,772 words) - 16:25, 6 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Bulbous bow
    coincides with the crest of the bow wave, and the two cancel out, reducing the vessel's wake. While inducing another wave stream saps energy from the ship, cancelling...
    13 KB (1,644 words) - 22:07, 12 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wave shoaling
    shallow water – Effect of shallow water on a surface gravity wave Wave height – Difference between the elevations of a crest and a neighbouring trough...
    12 KB (1,265 words) - 08:42, 28 July 2024
  • that the MLS would then be the ideal signal, as it consists of only full-scale values and its digital crest factor is the minimum, 0 dB. However, after...
    12 KB (1,638 words) - 00:29, 20 September 2024
  • compensation flow, which occurs below waves near the shore. Physically, nearshore, the wave-induced mass flux between wave crest and trough is onshore directed...
    12 KB (1,375 words) - 20:33, 29 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1893 Cheniere Caminada hurricane
    1893 Cheniere Caminada hurricane (category 1893 natural disasters in the United States)
    SS Alice (sloop) SS Bertha (schooner) SS Sunny (lugger) SS Premier (schooner) SS Centennial (schooner) SS Pecourt (schooner) SS Rosalie (lugger) SS Nikita...
    27 KB (3,083 words) - 19:35, 13 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of disasters in the United States by death toll
    This list of United States disasters by death toll includes disasters that occurred either in the United States, at diplomatic missions of the United States...
    184 KB (1,813 words) - 14:43, 16 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Philadelphia Experiment
    practice at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in October 1943. Allen claimed to have witnessed this experiment while serving aboard the SS Andrew Furuseth...
    31 KB (3,465 words) - 15:08, 7 October 2024
  • crest of a white horse and claim to be descendants of the sole survivor, Trevelyan. The Vyvyan family claims that Trevelyan was the last governor of the...
    15 KB (1,973 words) - 18:57, 1 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mull of Kintyre
    Archived from the original on 30 August 2012. Retrieved 27 August 2012. Chris, Kilpatrick (28 August 2012). "Superman Wayne on crest of a wave after historic...
    12 KB (1,039 words) - 15:14, 21 July 2024
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    Sea (redirect from The sea)
    The top of a wave is known as the crest, the lowest point between waves is the trough and the distance between the crests is the wavelength. The wave...
    177 KB (18,809 words) - 19:37, 15 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for RMS Laconia (1921)
    display the Royal Mail "crown" logo as a part of her crest. On 21 November 1922, Laconia began an around-the-world cruise, a charter by the American...
    17 KB (1,743 words) - 10:54, 23 September 2024
  • could break in two repeatedly, the only miniature to be used in water. For scenes set in the ship's engines, footage of the SS Jeremiah O'Brien's engines...
    205 KB (21,239 words) - 04:19, 15 October 2024
  • about the origins of FIFA Wild (2014) – biographical adventure drama film based on Cheryl Strayed and her determination to complete the Pacific Crest Trail...
    335 KB (34,315 words) - 14:29, 17 October 2024
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