Waves Off Land's End
- 1 April 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Navigation
- Vol. 18 (2) , 180-187
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0373463300021111
Abstract
Since January 1962, waves have been recorded by a shipborne wave recorder (Tucker, 1956) on the Sevenstones light-vessel which is stationed about 20 miles south-west of Land's End in about 200 ft. of water. Records were taken at three-hourly intervals and were mostly of 12 minutes’ duration. The analysis presented here is based on 2920 records taken in the first year of operation; the method of analysis which has been used is that described by Tucker (1961). This gives for each record:(a) H1 = The sum of the distances of the highest crest and the lowest trough from the mean water level.(b) Tz = The mean zero-crossing period.(c) Tc = The mean crest period.Keywords
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