WIND WAVES AND SWELL

Retinal Development: Waves are swell

Waves of spontaneous electrical activity and calcium transients occur in the retina during its development. Recent work raises the question of how these waves are produced and propagated.

11.4 Wind Stress and Wind Wave Observations in the Presence of Swell

The questions of how wind and ocean waves interact and how this coupling should be parameterized to optimally derive the surface wind stress remain open and central to estimating air-sea coupling at the global and local scales. While much attention has been given to evaluating the effect of the wind-driven waves upon the surface wind stress and air-sea drag coefficient, less emphasis has been g...

WIND observations of coherent electrostatic waves in the solar wind

The time domain sampler (TDS) experiment on WIND measures electric and magnetic wave forms with a sampling rate which reaches 120 000 points per second. We analyse here observations made in the solar wind near the Lagrange point L1. In the range of frequencies above the proton plasma frequency fpi and smaller than or of the order of the electron plasma frequency fpe, TDS observed three kinds of...

Modification of the Charnock Wind Stress Formula to Include the Effects of Free Convection and Swell

Waves in interplanetary shocks: a wind/WAVES study.

We describe results from the first statistical study of waveform capture data during 67 interplanetary (IP) shocks with Mach numbers ranging from approximately 1-6. Most of the waveform captures and nearly 100% of the large amplitude waves were in the ramp region. Although solitary waves, Langmuir waves, and ion acoustic waves (IAWs) are all observed in the ramp region of the IP shocks, large a...