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Brief Communication: Is there a wind connection to freaque wave occurrences?
P. C. Liu,R. Bouchard,W. E. Rogers,A. V. Babanin,and D. W. Wang
Abstract. There was a recent freaque wave encounter near Scituate, Massachusetts by a local transport ferry en route from Provincetown to Boston. The encounter resulted in minimal damages, fortunately, and provided us a chance to examine a possible connection between the freaque wave occurrence and the ambient wind field, since the place of encounter was in the vicinity of a NOAA NDBC buoy where wind and wave data were recorded. Here we present a brief analysis. In particular, we found it is plausible that the freaque wave was the result of a wind speed reduction in the wind field that preceded its occurrence.
Received: 21 Nov 2014 – Discussion started: 09 Jan 2015
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There was a recent freaque wave encounter near Scituate, Massachusetts by a local transport ferry en route from Provincetown to Boston. The encounter resulted in minimal damages, fortunately, and provided us a chance to examine a possible connection between the freaque wave occurrence and the ambient wind field, since the place of encounter was in the vicinity of a NOAA NDBC buoy where wind and wave data were recorded. in this paper we present a brief analysis.
There was a recent freaque wave encounter near Scituate, Massachusetts by a local transport...
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