Tag: gravity waves
Surface roughness, fetch, capillary waves
Talking about capillary waves the other day, I thought I’d show you some more pictures of them. Today not in a close up, but rather their overall effect on surface roughness. See how one side of the water is all smooth except for the occasional wave (for which you can clearly distinguish its crest and […]
Gravity waves and capillary waves on Kiel fjord
Yesterday, I took some pretty pictures of a red balloon floating on Kiel fjord, some seagulls swimming close to it, and — of course, most importantly — the seagull’s waves. You see some that they just made where you can still see how they relate to where they are swimming now. But then there are […]
