Sentences with phrase «wave heights of»

They can have wavelengths of 150 miles, wave heights of 100 ft and move as fast as 450 mph (jet speed!).

These generators were inundated with water 45 minutes later when the 15 - metre tsunami swept over the sea wall, which had been built to withstand a maximum wave height of only 5.7 metres.

The wave height of the ocean system corresponds to light intensity in the optical systems.

This image shows how seismic waves play out when they reach the surface: This elevation map depicts the wave height of the tsunami triggered by the Sendai earthquake as it radiated through the Pacific Ocean.

Ideal conditions for surfing in the Newquay bay are when winds are light to moderate from the south west with a wave height of 2 - 3ft.

Not exact matches

Notably, the explosions roughly doubled the height of waves to nearby islands, flooding inland areas.

«Taking advantage of the rising - sea - floor amplification effect, tsunami waves reaching 100 meters in height» — about 330 feet — «are possible,» Richardson said.

As users wave the cane from left to right when they walk, the ultrasonic beams bounce off of and identify obstacles in the user's path, particularly above knee height, a critical ability that old - school guide canes annoyingly don't have.

The whole form and evolution of the consciousness will then depend on the rising and falling of this wave; the intensity of the consciousness at any time on the wave's height at that time; and the height must always somewhere exceed a certain limit, which we will call a threshold, if waking consciousness is to exist at all.

Imagine the whole psycho - physical activity of man to be a wave, and the degree of this activity to be symbolized by the height of the wave above a horizontal basal line or surface, to which every psychophysically active point contributes an ordinate....

Craft beer, craft cocktails and local wine are all climbing to new heights as the wave of local, fresh and quality drinks is shaping consumer preference.

Height: 6» 3» Weight: 180 Age: 18 Last: 20 Stats (2017 UnderArmour Association): 15.3 PPG, 41.4 % 3FG After finishing his prep year at IMG and opting to forgo college for the draft, Simons appears set to ride a wave of mystery into a guaranteed contract thanks to his long - term potential.

Taking all this into account my final conclusion would be that we lost to Chelsea because they are a slightly better and more experienced team, at the height of a wave of invincibility that comes with winning the league and were playing at home.

The Times takes a look inside ConEd's command center as workers struggle to keep the lights on the height of a heat wave.

A few days later, at the height of the heat wave, I was cooling off after work with radio chums Ward Todd, Bill Skilling and Joe Schuler at the Hoffman House.

The Army Corps of Engineers studied a breakwater in 1991 and concluded it would be effective for wave heights anticipated at the time.

In the North, African - Americans trace their roots to the «Great Migration», (and less intense versions of that movement of people before and after that wave of migration), mostly to industrial cities seeking factory jobs, at the height of the U.S. industrial economy that declined starting around the 1970s and has continued to decline in employment but not productivity, partially due to automation and partially due to offshoring of jobs to lower wage, less regulated countries.

«Onshore measurements of microseisms track wave height offshore reasonably well,» agrees Spahr Webb of Columbia University's Earth Institute.

In the village of Villianur, where 1500 people were dependent upon fishing and had no modern means of navigating their boats, villagers began using the network to obtain the U.S. Navy's wave - height predictions for the Bay of Bengal, and they believe such information continues to save lives today.

«The long group waves can have wavelengths of several kilometers but their height is much lower than that of the individual storm waves.

A tsunami wave of roughly 19 centimeters (7.5 inches) was measured at Amchitka Island, in the Aleutian Islands chain, though lesser heights were recorded at other islands, said National Tsunami Warning Center oceanographer Bo Bahng.

But Fukushima Daiichi was doomed by a decision to plan for a maximum tsunami height of only 5.7 metres, well short of the wave of up to 15 metres that engulfed the plant on 11 March 2011.

Coastal communities around the world will likely see similar wave height increases, dependent on local reef structures and extent of sea level rise.

The team then simulated the height of a wave after it has passed the reef, known as the back - reef wave height, under several scenarios.

The height of the wave at any point gives the probability of finding the atom at that location.

Whitewater Kayaking Since the 2000 Olympics, the whitewater kayaking event has moved from natural rivers to artificial courses in which the water's speed and flow, the height of waves, and the obstacles can all be adjusted.

That measurement included only the height above the average level of the sea and did not consider the depth of the wave trough.

This graphic shows the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's predictions of the maximum heights of tsunami waves caused by the March 11 earthquake near Sendai, Japan.

However, each of the six sensors monitored wave height for only 512 seconds each eight hours, so they missed the peak of the storm.

Things can be rough on the open ocean — and they appear to be getting rougher, with increased average air speed, wave height, and frequency of strong winds and large waves over the past two decades.

More recently, seamen and engineers alike have dismissed them as easily explainable: If you know the speed and direction of the wind, if you know the distance over which it has been blowing and the depth of the water, you can predict the height, length, speed, and even the frequency of any wave.

The main means of measuring seas and waves is around 50 years old: Buoys at sea record the heights to which they're raised.

As waves break and reduce in height over reefs, this drives currents that are very important for the transport of nutrients and larvae.

The researchers used a 16 - year record of satellite altimeter measurements of wave heights.

This research is unique as it looks at the impact of a large scale reef matrix, such as the Great Barrier Reef, on wave height.

Gary M. McMurtry of the University of Hawaii at Manoa and his colleagues conclude that the most likely way the shells could have reached such a lofty location was within the waves of a tsunami that attained the astonishing height of 300 meters along some Hawaiian coastlines.

Using computer simulations, they calculated how terahertz waves would interact with cylinders of varying heights and widths.

Professor Young says: «A number of previous studies have investigated the attenuation (height reduction) of ocean waves as they spread across individual coral reefs.

The researchers traced the waves» height along the trajectory an accelerating observer would have taken, which produced a pattern analogous to a temperature: When broken up according to their frequencies, the distribution of ripples matched the frequencies of the radiation that would be associated with the temperature predicted by the Unruh effect.

The Delta Flume boasts bigger waves; the maximum significant wave height — a measure of a storm's intensity — is 2.2 meters, but individual waves may top out at 4.5 meters.

These giant waves traveled as far as 1,300 miles and reached heights of up to 39 feet.

Maybe, it is possible to issue a last - instant warning from observations of recorded wave heights?

Dr Paolo Cipollini from NOC explained: «When a satellite altimeter overpasses the area affected by a surge, it gives us a unique profile of the water surface level from offshore to the coast, as well as concurrent measurements of wave height.

The findings suggest that the trees shield the coastline (pdf) by reducing the height and energy of ocean waves and offer hard evidence that deforestation could result in increased coastal damage from storms.

The movement of water in the ocean is determined by many factors including tides; winds; surface waves; internal waves, those that propagate within the layers of the ocean; and differences in temperature, salinity or sea level height.

More recently, an earthquake of magnitude of about 7.0 hit the Messina region in Italy in 1908, causing a tsunami that killed thousands, with observed waves locally exceeding 10 metres in height.

Even in areas with generally calm seas, waves can sometimes rise two stories high; in stormier areas, they can match the height of a five - story building, Petrie says.

In rare conditions, those waves arrive in an organized way or almost in phase, leading to an unusual case of constructive interference that can double the height of the resulting wave.

«These nonlinear effects can produce an enhancement of 15 to 20 percent in wave height, which adds onto the effects of constructive interference.»

First, the bird would soar across the wind and slightly into it, climbing from just above the waves to a height of about 15 meters.