Sentences with phrase «wave field»

Since «George Washington» (2000) opens with a teenage girl's dreamy, wise - beyond - her - years narration as the camera floats in slow - motion through waving fields of grass and glides along railroad tracks, you probably don't need to be told that first - time feature director David Gordon Green, then just twenty five and fresh out of film school, was a big Terrence Malick fan.

By tracking the energy of the surrounding wave field over this length - scale, they could immediately calculate the probability of a rogue wave developing.

After all, I was waving a field hockey stick instead of a pompon.

The BoomRoom relies on a technique developed at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands called wave field synthesis (WFS).

«These large spikes are the rogues jumping out of a deepwater wave field,» Osborne says.

By means of standing X-ray wave fields, they were able to scan both graphene and substrate at a precision of a few millionths of a micrometre — less than a tenth of the radius of an atom.

In previous work, the team identified one mechanism by which rogue waves form in unidirectional wave fields.

The results, both theoretical and experimental, demonstrate the effectiveness of this technique to provide a comprehensive and convenient shot - to - shot measurement of focused - pulse wave fields and source - point positional variations without the need for manipulative optics between the focus and the detector.

I close my eyes and for a moment I am back in my valley — the high snow - topped mountains, green waving fields and fresh blue rivers — and my heart smiles when it looks at the people of Swat.

Strong gradients in the surface wind and wave fields exist at scales of a few kilometers; they are dramatically smoothed in NWP models.

Microwave measurements penetrate thick convective storm clouds, observing wind and wave fields with good accuracy.

The Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association had seeded more than $ 28 million to scientists in the radio wave field in 1995.

More often than not, it's waving fields of grain and happy cows roaming in green pastures, or sizzling plates of steak or chicken.

Sapsis and Cousins devised a much simpler, faster way to predict rogue waves, given data on the surrounding wave field.

With often achingly beautiful mise en scène, Malick crafts stills of the feminine torso: Jane's red dress cinched by a black belt set against a waving field of autumnal grain; the cursor outlining Marina's pelvic bones in the X-ray showing her IUD contraceptive.

«People in the wave field looked from the start for efficiency; you have to start from survivability,» says Max Carcas, director of business development for Pelamis.

«We describe the complex energy flow of a wave field by what we call its directional spectra,» said Frédéric Dias, a professor at University College Dublin.

«If we know the wave field, we can identify immediately what would be the critical length scale that one has to observe, and then identify spatial regions with high probability for a rare event,» Sapsis says.

A few days later, while standing in the middle of a waving field of grass, the sun bathing the landscape in a yellow joy, she is kissed by George, most unexpectedly.

The park hosts exquisite site - specific works, from a wave field installed by Maya Lin to Richard Serra's buried steel plates at the grounds» border.

Unprecedented views of surface wind and wave fields in storms are now provided by microwave sensors on - board polar orbiting satellites.