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  2. Lamb waves - Wikipedia

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    Lamb waves propagate in solid plates or spheres. [1] They are elastic waves whose particle motion lies in the plane that contains the direction of wave propagation and the direction perpendicular to the plate. In 1917, the English mathematician Horace Lamb published his classic analysis and description of acoustic waves of this type. Their ...

  3. Rayleigh wave - Wikipedia

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    Rayleigh waves are distinct from other types of surface or guided acoustic waves such as Love waves or Lamb waves, both being types of guided waves supported by a layer, or longitudinal and shear waves, that travel in the bulk. Rayleigh waves have a speed slightly less than shear waves by a factor dependent on the elastic constants of the ...

  4. Kelvin wave - Wikipedia

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    These waves are called coastal Kelvin waves. Using the assumption that the cross-shore velocity v is zero at the coast, v = 0, one may solve a frequency relation for the phase speed of coastal Kelvin waves, which are among the class of waves called boundary waves, edge waves, trapped waves, or surface waves (similar to the Lamb waves). [3]

  5. ‘Like going to the moon’: Why this is the world’s most ...

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    The Drake is part of the most voluminous ocean current in the world, with up to 5,300 million cubic feet flowing per second. ... “The waves come from all sorts of directions as the thrusters ...

  6. List of rogue waves - Wikipedia

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    This list of rogue waves compiles incidents of known and likely rogue waves – also known as freak waves, monster waves, killer waves, and extreme waves. These are dangerous and rare ocean surface waves that unexpectedly reach at least twice the height of the tallest waves around them, and are often described by witnesses as "walls of water ...

  7. Surface wave - Wikipedia

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    This radiative ground wave is known as Norton surface wave, or more properly Norton ground wave, because ground waves in radio propagation are not confined to the surface. Another type of surface wave is the non-radiative, bound-mode Zenneck surface wave or Zenneck–Sommerfeld surface wave .

  8. Oceanography - Wikipedia

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    Oceanography (from Ancient Greek ὠκεανός (ōkeanós) 'ocean' and γραφή (graphḗ) 'writing'), also known as oceanology, sea science, ocean science, and marine science, is the scientific study of the ocean, including its physics, chemistry, biology, and geology.

  9. Seismic wave - Wikipedia

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    a Love wave sometimes called LT-Wave (Both caps, while an Lt is different) n: a wave that travels along the boundary between the crust and mantle P: a P wave in the mantle p: a P wave ascending to the surface from the focus R: a Rayleigh wave S: an S wave in the mantle s: an S wave ascending to the surface from the focus w