On determining the directions of waves from a ship at sea
The paper describes a method by which a shipborne wave recorder can be used to determine directions and frequencies of component wave trains in fairly simple patterns of waves, from the Doppler shifts observed as the ship steams at constant speed along a succession of different courses. Measurements...
| Published in: | Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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The Royal Society
1956
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1956.0041 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspa.1956.0041 |
| Summary: | The paper describes a method by which a shipborne wave recorder can be used to determine directions and frequencies of component wave trains in fairly simple patterns of waves, from the Doppler shifts observed as the ship steams at constant speed along a succession of different courses. Measurements of the relationship between wave frequency and velocity made by the R. R. S. Discovery II in the North Atlantic Ocean agree with the classical relationship. |
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