When I was talking about foam stripes the other day, you might have noticed that the foam stripe wasn’t a foam stripe all the way, but became “just a stripe”. And since I have been thinking about surfactants a lot recently, I think that’s actually what we are seeing in places where the stripe is […]
One sunny morning, I noticed The Stripe again: Running all the way up and down the coast. In places where there is a large fetch the stripe is clearly foamy: But looking downwind from the pier the picture above was taken from, the foam stripe becomes just a stripe! And looking in the same direction, […]
As you might have noticed, I am getting a little obsessed with those foam stripes. Another day, a little more wind, looking up the coast: And down the coast… Do you notice the irregularities in the foam stripe in the pictures above? Those are the places where, in much calmer weather, you see the funny […]
I think I might be getting closer to understanding the foam stripe mystery. Remember how we’ve always observed them going in parallel to the coast? Yesterday I saw this again, looking up the coast in one direction… …and down the other direction. I’ve had the hypothesis that they might be somehow related to Langmuir circulation, […]
I think I might be getting obsessed with those stripes parallel to the coast. We saw them as foam stripes, eel grass stripes and now today: leaf stripes! Or should it be leaves stripes instead of leaf stripes? Interestingly enough, that day there wasn’t just one stripe, but in some places there were even two. It’s […]
I recently got a new comment on my blog post on foam stripes parallel to the coast, and since you guys hardly ever comment on my blog (I like getting your emails! Really! But why not comment on here? ;-)) it spiked my interest enough to look out for more foam stripes. So about a […]
