Sentence examples for fetch length from inspiring English sources
Results show that the increase in fetch length increases the wave height.
Many formulations have been developed so far to predict the wave height and period from fetch length and wind blowing duration for a constant wind speed.
The term also is used as a synonym for fetch length, which is the horizontal distance over which wave-generating winds blow.
There is also a need to obtain field data on the combined effect of moisture, angle of wind approach, beach width, and fetch length.
This study aimed to predict wave parameters from fetch length and meteorological factors by using triple diagram methodology based on Kriging principles.
Wind speed, wind direction, fetch length and wind duration were used as input variables, while significant wave height, peak spectral period and mean wave direction were the output parameters.
Those who deal professionally with waves make frequent use of a picturesque expression — the "length of fetch".
True to the genre's form, Macfarlane at length fetches back some old natural wisdom: "I now understand it certainly to be the case, though I have long imagined it to be true, that stretches of a path might carry memories of a person just as a person might of a path".
Deviations in the directional wind speed predictions were found to correspond with the length of the sea fetch: For smaller sea fetches WAsP seems to slightly over-predict the wind speed, while for long fetches of more than 30 km an under-prediction is found.
However, the length of unobstructed terrain (fetch) over which the wind flows is important in allowing the wind to gain momentum and to increase its erosive power.
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