Same wind, different waves, or: the influence of fetch length on the size of waves
I just found this picture that I took back in May near my friend Elin’s cabin on an island in western Norway, and it’s a really nice illustration of how…
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Awesome reflection of a wave train
This is a really good way to train your eyes to spot reflections of waves: watch a single wave train hit a sea wall: Please don’t get sea sick when…
Wake of the Stena Germanica — what’s going on there?
After having talked about wakes quite a bit recently, I’m going to show you a couple more pics today (bit not as many as I did two days ago, sorry!…
More wakes
And now you thought I was done showing you wakes? Ha, I was not nearly done! I told you, watching waves makes me happy :-) And from Stena Germanica’s sun…
Wakes and what they do to the sun’s reflection
When I said that wake watching made me happy last week, did you really think those were all the wakes I was going to show you? Ha! No, I have…
Reflected wake
The best ship-watching of the year happens during Kiel Week (even if I do a fair bit of ship-watching year round ;-)) But this year, I was absolutely fascinated with…
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…
Wave train
When you look at waves, do you sometimes notice the train of smaller waves being pushed forward by the “main” wave? That has always fascinated me. Kind of like in the center of…
Standing waves in a tank
And really high order ones, too! On Monday, I showed you a movie on wave generation in Hamburg Ship Model Basin (HSVA)’s wave tank. At the end of that movie, we…
Let’s do the wave! Longitudinal or transversal?
A simple visualization of two types of waves. The FIFA world cup has been over for a while now, but I still need to share an idea I had watching…