lee – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

Atmospheric & water wave watching

mglessmer — Tue, 04 Jun 2019 04:23:26 +0000

What I find really fascinating about watching waves in the atmosphere rather than on water is that all the waves that become visible are not surface waves like on water, but internal waves. Which we have to go to great lengths to make visible in water (for example by adding dyes in tank experiments) but […]

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Interesting pilot ship #wavewatching at Kiel canal

mglessmer — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 13:05:23 +0000

Some throwback Friday evening wave watching (at the locks at Kiel Holtenau with my friend Sara for a nice and relaxing end of the week) to start the new week. The best! First: The pilot boat going towards the locks. Unusually visible wake — they are going fast today! Plus an interesting sheltering of waves: […]

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Shelter from the storm

mglessmer — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 09:19:23 +0000

Shelter from the storm, no, shelter from the breeze. But we clearly see the sheltering effect of that boat shed on the wind waves… Same thing below. And wasn’t that a beautiful day :-)

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Front-spotting in muddy waters

mglessmer — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 11:22:26 +0000

On a recent flight from Hamburg to London City Airport, I ended up on one of the tiniest planes I’ve ever been on. Which meant that we flew super low, I took tons of pictures out of a not-very-clean window, and all my pictures have at least one propeller blade in them. But look at […]

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More wave-spotting in “urban environments”

mglessmer — Tue, 24 May 2016 10:13:55 +0000

I recently started looking at waves in “urban environments” (in contrast to “on the sea”) with a new found fascination. The reason why will be revealed soon, but for now just know that there are more waves coming up on this blog! Today, let’s start by looking at more waves on Store Lungegårdsvannet, like we […]

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