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A complex phenomenon in which the surface of the wave folds or rolls over and intersects itself. In the process it may mix (entrain) air into the water and generate turbulence. The causes of wave breaking are various, for example, through the wave steepening as it approaches a beach, through an interaction with other waves in deep water, or through the input of energy from the wind causing the wave to steepen and become unstable.
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A cool, onshore, easterly wind in the Senriku district of Japan in summer. It originates in the Okhotsk anticyclone and blows over the cold sea, bringing periods of three to seven days of clouds, rain, and fog.
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A collection of waves, the amplitudes of which are largest for waves with frequency and wavelength in a range about some central frequency and wavelength.
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A communication using an electronic (radio, telephone, telegraph) transmission system. Used to imply rapid and distant communication.
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1. The disturbed state of a medium through which any wave form of energy is being propagated. 2. In synoptic meteorology, same as wave cyclone, but usually denoting an early stage in the development of a wave cyclone, or a poorly developed one. See disturbance.
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A collection of ideas and axioms, leading to differential equations specifying rates of change, that describes our experience with processes that involve fluxes of heat and changes in energy content. Thermodynamics introduces a new concept.
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A cold wind from the northeast or north, particularly on the west coast of Italy and northern Corsica, but also in the Balearic Islands and the Ebro Valley in Catalonia. Like the mistral, it is associated with the advance of an anticyclone from the west following a depression over the Mediterranean. Weather is fine with occasional instability showers. In Languedoc and Roussillon (southern France) a similar wind (tramontane) blows from the northwest, but the name is also applied to an invasion of polar air from the northwest, which is squally or tempestuous, dry, and cold except south of the Cévennes where it becomes foehn-like. This type occurs during the filling of a depression in the Gulf of Genoa and persists for eight to twelve days, mainly in winter and early spring; it rises to a peak at midday and weakens at night. On the Côte d'Azur and in eastern Provence, the tramontane is sometimes called the montagnère or montagneuse.
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A cold north or northeast storm of the Russian steppes, lasting about three days.
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A cold night wind blowing out of the valley of the Wisper River in Germany during clear weather.
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