Wind wave

In fluid dynamics, wind waves, or wind-generated waves, are surface waves that occur on the free surface of bodies of water (like oceans, seas, lakes, rivers, canals, puddles or ponds). Quotes There's sky and deathshimmering the waves. Lorna Dee Cervantes, The Prayer pressed between the waves, Emplumada 1981 University of Pittsburgh Press 978-0-8229-5327-2 Vieil océan. ... Si tes vagues sont quelque part en furie, plus loin, dans quelque autre zone, elles sont dans le calme le plus complet. Old ocean! ... If somewhere your waves are enraged, farther off in some other zone they are in the most complete calm. Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror (1972 ed.), p. 13. The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast,And the woods against a stormy sky, Their giant branches toss'd. Felicia Hemans, The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England (1826). Each wave, instead of the big, smooth glossy mountain it looks from shore or from a vessel's deck, was for all the world like any range of hills on dry land, full of peaks and smooth places and valleys. Stevenson Robert Louis Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island 1883 Cassel & company 194 Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations thumb|right| Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 554-57. Ye wavesThat o'er th' interminable ocean wreatheYour crisped smiles. Æschylus, Prometheus Chained, line 95. "The multitudinous laughter of the sea." As translation. by De Quincey. "The many-twinkling smile of ocean," is used by Keble—Christian Year. 2nd Sunday After Trinity.' What are the wild waves saying, Sister, the whole day long,That ever amid our playing I hear but their low, lone song? Joseph E. Carpenter, What are the Wild Waves Saying? Whilst breezy waves toss up their silvery spray. Thomas Hood, Ode to the Moon. Come o'er the moonlit sea,The waves are brightly glowing. Charles Jefferys, The Moonlit Sea. Hitherto thou shalt come, but no further; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed. Job, XXXVIII. 11. See also Geography Maritime law Navy Oceans Ponds River Sea Water External links Ocean surface waves Water waves wave High School Earth Science/Ocean Movements#Waves Coastal Engineering/Water Wave Theories "Anatomy of a Wave" Holben, Jay boatsafe.com captured 5/23/06 NOAA National Weather Service ESA press release on swell tracking with ASAR onboard ENVISAT Introductory oceanography chapter 10 – Ocean Waves HyperPhysics – Ocean Waves Category:Maritime Category:Waves Category:Wind