Latest Water waves Stories
Residents Should Prepare Now to Protect Their Families, Homes, and Finances TALLAHASSEE, Fla., April 4, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- This spring, the Federal Alliance for Safe Homes (FLASH®) encourages families to prepare for flood dangers prevalent from now through hurricane season. Spring is a timely reminder of the dangers associated with flooding and the steps residents and community leaders can take to protect against flood damage. To view the multimedia assets associated...
Flood Control America stands in support of NOAA’s efforts to highlight the threat of flooding in the United States with Flood Safety Awareness Week. The annual event shines a spotlight on the many ways floods can occur, the hazards associated with floods, and what citizens can do to protect their lives and property. Sudbury, MA (PRWEB) March 23, 2013 “NOAA’s National Weather Service does so much to promote flood safety, and Flood Safety Awareness Week is a shining example of...
[ Watch the Video: Animation of a Tsunami Wave ] April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online An international collaboration has resulted in a new study showing that the earthquake zones off certain coasts, such as Japan and Java, make them especially vulnerable to tsunamis. These zones can produce a focusing point that creates massive and devastating tsunamis capable of breaking the rules by which scientists used to think tsunamis worked. Previously, scientists largely...
GALVESTON, Texas, Feb. 5, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Just as truck drivers want to know about road conditions and airline pilots are concerned with foggy skies, ship captains have an urgent need to know about wave heights - as do surfers and others who spend time on the seas and shores. A Texas A&M University at Galveston professor has spent his career studying large waves and what causes them. (Logo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120502/DC99584LOGO) Vijay Panchang,...
[ Watch the Video: BYU Engineers Study How Waves Impact Weather, Atmosphere ] redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online While it may be easy to blame weathermen when their predictors go horribly, horribly wrong, one US researcher says that the meteorologist may not be to blame – that there are underlying scientific forces at work that can sabotage even the most well-researched forecasts. Those forces are known as internal waves, and according to Brigham Young...
April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online The Soviet government has long kept outsiders away from the Russian Far East, shrouding a source of powerful earthquakes and volcanic activity on the Pacific Rim in secrecy. In the last 20 years, however, research has shown that the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Kuril Islands are a seismic and volcanic hotbed. This area has the potential to trigger tsunamis that pose a risk to the rest of the Pacific Basin. As an example, in...
ESA An anticlockwise rotation of sea-surface height patterns has been observed near Norway’s west coast. Archived data from radar altimeters on the ERS-1, ERS-2 and Envisat satellites show the wave-like motion around the center of the Lofoten Basin. The Lofoten Basin is a topographic depression about 3500 m deep in the Norwegian Sea and plays an important role in sustaining global ocean circulation. It is a transit area for the warm and saline Atlantic Water on its way to the Arctic...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Invisibility cloaking may one day help to shield ships floating around in the ocean from waves, according to research presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society (APS). The new approach to invisibility cloaking is based on the influence of the ocean floor's topography on various "layers" of ocean water. Reza Alam, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley,...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Oceanographers from the U.S. Navy are using ocean wave research to help improve forecasts. Naval oceanography can provide information critical for combat disciplines, and today U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) physicists at the Remote Sensing Division will continue to improve the integrity of these forecasts. "Current state-of-the-art ocean wave forecasting numerical models do not take this mechanism into account," Dr. Ivan...
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Scientists have found evidence of a deadly tsunami that inundated coastal Switzerland in AD 563 after a rockfall near the River Rhone swept Lake Geneva. A wall of water 42 feet high crashed the shore, destroying villages along the coast and killing people and livestock, according to historical accounts of the incident. Scientists now say that Geneva and Lausanne remain vulnerable to similar events today, as do other cities on the...
Latest Water waves Reference Libraries
Image Credit: Meteorologist Joshua Kelly When meteorologists are forecasting for ocean-going vessels, there are a few terms that we need to understand. The first term is wavelength. Wavelength is defined as the distance between two crests or between two troughs as seen in the image above. The example above highlights the crest to crest concept of wavelength. The next term that we use is wave height, and to determine this, we first must look at the wave when it passes our station. When...
