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A type of these phenomena is 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 [read slowly] the time derivative of u plus the third spatial derivative of u plus 6 times u times 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 scale of motion. The rotation of the Earth produces large-scale examples of these phenomena named for Kelvin and Rossby. (10[1])Examples of these phenomena called (10[1])solitons are sometimes identified with unusually large “rogue” (10[1])ones of them. (10[1])For 10 points, name these phenomena whose heights measured from crest to trough. ■END■

ANSWER: waves [accept ocean waves or water waves; accept rogue waves; accept shallow water 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 until read] (The first line describes oceanic Kelvin waves. The third line is the Korteweg-de Vries equation.)
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