Wave watching in an end moraine lake in Brodowin
On our work trip to Brodowin to prepare the GEO-Tag der Natur (which will take place here only a little more than a week from now! Crazy!), I had the…
Tag: slope
Same beach, different waves. Why?
Here is a puzzle for you. Walking along a beach, first, the waves looked like this: One wave breaking at a time. That’s the situation you also see in the…
Waves on a slope
Earlier this year at Forscherfreizeit Ratzeburg – the summer camp at which Conny, Siska, Martin, a bunch of teenagers and myself spent a week sailing, exploring and playing with water –…
Types of breaking waves depending on steepness of slope – small scale
Video of different types of breakers – small scale. In this recent post we talked about types of breakers depending on the steepness of the slope. But even on a…
Waves breaking depending on steepness of the slope
Waves breaking on slopes of different steepnesses. Depending on a slope’s steepness, waves can break in very different ways. On nearly horizontal beaches, spilling breakers develop. On steeper beaches, plunging…