Sentences with phrase «fetch over the open water»

As we lose the ice, the wind has what we call a big fetch over the open water, and you get big waves.

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The height of waves is in part determined by surface wind speed, as well as the fetch (distance over open water that the wind can travel) and the duration of a wind event.

That warming extends the 50 m or so to the seabed because we are dealing with only a polar surface water layer here (over the shelves the Arctic Ocean structure is one - layer rather than three layers) and the surface warming is mixed down by wave - induced mixing because the extensive open water permits large fetches.