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- Title
Brief Communication: Is there a wind connection to freaque wave occurrences?
- Authors
Liu, P. C.; Bouchard, R.; Rogers, W. E.; Babanin, A. V.; Wang, D. W.
- 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.
- Subjects
SCITUATE (Mass.); WAVES (Physics); WIND speed; BUOYANCY; PLAUSIBILITY (Logic)
- Publication
Natural Hazards & Earth System Sciences Discussions, 2015, Vol 3, Issue 1, p319
- ISSN
2195-9269
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5194/nhessd-3-319-2015