Open AccessUNUSUAL WAVES ON EUROPEAN COASTS, FEBRUARY 1979
Author(s) -
L. Draper,
T.M. Bownass
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
proceedings of conference on coastal engineering/proceedings of ... conference on coastal engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2156-1028
pISSN - 0589-087X
DOI - 10.9753/icce.v18.18
Subject(s) - wavelength , geology , oceanography , channel (broadcasting) , spring (device) , intertidal zone , period (music) , seismology , climatology , physics , acoustics , telecommunications , optics , engineering , thermodynamics
A depression in mid North Atlantic moved at a speed such that it generated high waves of unusually long period and large wavelength. These waves travelled in precisely the right direction to carry them into the English Channel, where they arrived during a time of spring tides and when low barometric pressure contributed to long waves impinging high, on the foreshore, causing appreciable damage to sea defences and property.