Sentence examples for fetch distance from inspiring English sources

While wind tunnel experiments tend to show critical fetch distances of a few metres, studies in natural areas show that measured critical fetch distance can exceed one hundred metres.

In coastal areas tradeoffs imposed by the geometry of the beach over which the wind is blowing and wind direction determine the available fetch distance and thus the sediment transport rate downwind.

PM10 monitoring upwind and downwind of the array and in the absence of the array in 2015, indicated that the downwind PM10 concentration was less than the upwind for the fence array, whereas in the absence of fences PM10 increased in the downwind direction over the same fetch distance, suggesting the presence of the fences was reducing the flux of PM10 from within the fence array.

There is supporting evidence pointing to the role of soil clods/crusts and moisture content in increasing critical fetch distances in agricultural and coastal areas, respectively.

Long-term monitoring using remote sensing techniques may provide valuable data to analyze the effect of fetch distances on the nature of transport events that deliver sediment from the beach to the foredune.

The term also is used as a synonym for fetch length, which is the horizontal distance over which wave-generating winds blow.

A major challenge which needs to be addressed is the development of robust equations for predicting both the critical fetch length and the increase in the sediment transport rate with distance on beaches.

The form of the spectrum can be related to wind speed and direction and the duration of the storm and the fetch (or distance upwind) over which it has blown, and this information is used for wave prediction.

The sea state of the ocean is determined by the size of these waves, which on the open ocean depends upon the wind speed and the fetch, the distance over which the wind blows upon the water.

The Fitzgerald sank at the eastern edge of the area of high wind where the long fetch, or distance that wind blows over water, produced significant waves averaging over 23 feet by 7 00 p.m. and over 25 feet at 8 00 p.m.

Wave heights do not increase with increasing fetch beyond this distance.