Tsunami response at Wake Island: A model study

The amplitude response to periodic plane waves incident upon an undistorted model of Wake Island on a scale of 57,500:1 was determined for a number of frequencies covering the long-wave portion of the wave spectrum and from three different directions…

Wind stress on an artificial pond

The wind-induced slope of the surface in an 800-foot model-yacht pond has been measured to a relative accuracy of 5 x 10-7. This slope is proportional to the sum of the surface and bottom stresses…

Explosion-generated waves in water of variable depth

This study shows that the theory of geometric optics adequately predicts the behavior of a dispersive wave system radiating from a large chemical explosion over sloping bottom topography. The phase and amplitude of an equivalent wave train (reconstructed from the observed data for uniform depth equal to that at the explosion site) are shown to be consistent with the phase and amplitude predicted by theory for the wave system produced by an initial parabolic crater in the water...