Question

A type of these phenomena are significant only within distances on the order of the “radius of deformation.” The Pierson-Moskowitz spectrum describes the distribution of these phenomena when a system is in a state of equilibrium described as “fully developed.” A model of these phenomena sets zero equal to the time derivative of u plus the third spatial derivative of u plus 6 times u time the spatial derivative of u. The speed of these phenomena is given by the square root of the quantity (*) g times d under an approximation that holds depth to be much less than the horizontal (-5[1])scale of motion. (-5[1])The rotation of the Earth produces large-scale examples of these phenomena named for Kelvin and Rossby. Examples of these phenomena called solitons are sometimes identified with unusually large ones called “rogue.” (10[1])For 10 points, name these phenomena that have their heights measured from crest to trough. (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: waves [accept ocean waves; accept rogue waves; accept atmospheric waves or tropospheric waves or stratospheric waves; accept (equatorial) Kelvin waves; accept Rossby waves; accept surface waves; accept gravity waves; accept solitons before mentioned] (The first line describes oceanic Kelvin waves. The third line is the Korteweg-de Vries equation.)
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Ian TheysmeyerOttawa COttawa B15010

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