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The low pressure of the cyclone draws greater-than-normal quantities of water into the virtually landlocked Baltic. As the cyclone continues inland, long, low-frequency seiche waves with wavelengths up to several hundred kilometres are established in the Baltic.
Water then infiltrated the inside of the mound and by combining with tannin exuding from the tree trunks, set up acidic conditions which destroyed the skeleton but preserved the skin, hair, ligaments, and clothing of the individuals. Perhaps the most interesting wetland archaeological find was the Ozette site.
If the moving water is suddenly stopped, such as by closing a valve downstream of the flowing water, the pressure can rise suddenly with a resulting shock wave. In domestic plumbing this shock wave is experienced as a loud banging resembling a hammering noise. Water hammer can cause pipelines to break if the pressure is sufficiently high.
These lines of sargassum can stretch for miles along the surface. The clumps of floating algae are often concentrated by the strong winds and wave action associated with the Gulf Stream. In physical oceanography, Langmuir circulation consists of a series of shallow, slow, counter-rotating vortices at the ocean's surface aligned with the wind ...
Figure 4: An undular front on a tidal bore. At this point the water is relatively deep and the fractional change in elevation is small. A tidal bore is a hydraulic jump which occurs when the incoming tide forms a wave (or waves) of water that travel up a river or narrow bay against the direction of the current. [16]
After the wave breaks, it becomes a wave of translation and erosion of the ocean bottom intensifies. Cnoidal waves are exact periodic solutions to the Korteweg–de Vries equation in shallow water, that is, when the wavelength of the wave is much greater than the depth of the water.
Topographic Rossby waves are geophysical waves that form due to bottom irregularities. For ocean dynamics , the bottom irregularities are on the ocean floor such as the mid-ocean ridge . For atmospheric dynamics, the other primary branch of geophysical fluid dynamics , the bottom irregularities are found on land, for example in the form of ...
The part of the ridge that is above the water surface is known as the sail; that below it as the keel. [ note 2 ] Pressure ridges are the thickest sea ice features and account for up to 30–40% of the total sea ice area [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and about one-half of the total sea ice volume. [ 5 ]