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UNUSUAL WAVES ON EUROPEAN COASTS, FEBRUARY 1979

Author(s) -

Laurence Draper,

T.M. Bownass

Publication year - 1982

Publication title -

coastal engineering proceedings

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.

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