WAVE LENGTH
The least distance between particles moving in the same phase of oscillation of a wave.
Wave Length
The mean horizontal distance between successive crests (or troughs) of a wave pattern.
Wave period ...
SHORT WAVE A progressive wave of smaller amplitude, wave length, and duration than a long wave.
SteepnessIn marine terms, on a buoy report, wave steepness is the ratio of wave height to wave length and is an indicator of wave stability. When wave steepness exceeds a 1/7 ratio, the wave becomes unstable and begins to break.
The series of colored bands diffracted and arranged in the order of their respective wave lengths by the passage of white light through a prism or other diffracting medium and shading continuously from red (produced by the longest visible wave) to ...
The wave length is typically longer than that of the rapidly moving individual cyclonic and anticyclonic disturbances of the lower troposphere. The angular wavenumber of long waves is generally taken to be from 1 to 5.
Wave Steepness: The ratio of wave heights to wave length.
Warm Air Advection: Transport of warm air into an area by horizontal winds. Low-level warm advection sometimes is referred to (erroneously) as overrunning.
ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM The band of electromagnetic radiation with components that are separated into their relative wave lengths.
In marine terms, on a buoy report, wave steepness is the ratio of wave height to wave length and is an indicator of wave stability. When wave steepness exceeds a 1/7 ratio, the wave becomes unstable and begins to break.
Steering Currents ...
decay - In ocean wave studies, the loss of energy from wind-generated ocean waves after they have ceased to be acted on by the wind. This process is accompanied by an increase in wave length and a decrease in wave height.
 See also: Weather, Wave, Air, Water, Surface
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