A beautiful #friendlywaves from Spain
A reader of my blog, Rocío*, sent me this beautiful image from Arnao beach (Castrillón- Asturias-Spain), and I asked if I could use it in a #friendlywaves post. He agreed, so…
Tag: diffraction
Wave watching in Kleinwaabs — and my first real Insta story!
So today (and tomorrow and the day after) is the big event that I have been working towards all year in my not-so-new-anymore job: The GEO-Tag der Natur! If you…
Wind-driven waves in natural flumes for #flumefriday
On a bike tour with my friend Frauke in Greetsiel two or three weeks ago, she pointed out how well one could see that the waves on the puddles left…
The wonders of a Wadden Sea. Or what someone addicted to #wavewatching thinks they are
As someone living on the German Baltic Sea coast, I don’t spend a lot of time on the North Sea coast (except, actually, my week-long vacation after Easter with my…
I’m explaining your wave pictures: A #friendlywave from the Île d’Yeu, France
The whole #friendlywave thing (where I explain your wave picture) is starting off great! Here is one that reached my via my Twitter; link to thread here. What’s going on…
Wave watching: Refraction and diffraction of waves
A little more wave watching, today with a focus on how waves change direction when they run into shallow water. Let’s look at this beautiful wave and see what happens when…
Weekend wave-watching
Of course I did not only take pictures of lighthouses and instructional activities during the teacher training at Lotseninsel last week. I also took TONS of pictures of water! Some…
Diffraction of waves around obstacle
I have always really liked the artwork you see below that was installed in Store Lungegårdsvann when I still lived in Bergen. But on the pictures here you also see how…
Diffraction
I find it really fascinating to watch waves being bent by objects in their way. See how the wave is spreading out from the little slit? Or here how waves…
Wavelength dependency of wave-object-interactions
Wavelength dependency of wave-object-interactions. What a title! :-) But that is exactly what I observed over the enormous timespan of three full minutes (as shown by the time stamps of…
Another wave hunt expedition: Learning to discover ocean physics wherever you go
One of my favourite topics right now: Learning to “see” ocean physics wherever you go. For example here: A visit to my goddaughter in Schleswig, and this time we are practicing all…
Diffraction and reflection of waves
Last night, we saw really nice wave phenomena on the Schlei in Schleswig. Do you see the waves being diffracted by the pier in the picture below? Waves are coming in…
Wave hunt expedition. You don’t need to live close to the coast to observe all kinds of wave phenomena!
A 1.5 hour walk around a lake — and 242 photos of said lake — later I can tell you one thing: You definitely don’t need to live close to…
Diffraction of light
Today I’m playing with the sun. As I mentioned in the sun dog post already, I recently went on the ferry from Kiel to Gothenburg. And I had plenty of…