SIO 210: Fall 2016

Waves and Tides

Readings

• A more technical (and less general) treatment, from Stewart's online text, is HERE, especially sections 16.1(very useful for 210) , 16.3 (very technical about spectra for 210), 16.4 (summary of real spectra).
• The original demonstration that long swell crosses the oceans can be found in Snodgrass, F.E., G.W. Groves, K.F. Hasselmann, G.R. Miller, W.H. Munk, W.H. Powers (1966). "Propagation of ocean swell across the Pacific". Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A 259: 431–497. It can be found HERE.
• Descriptive Physical Oceanography 6th edition: Chapter 8, sections 8.2 and 8.3

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