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  2. Roughness - Wikipedia

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    Hydraulic roughness, the roughness of land and waterway features; Roughness (psychophysics) in psychoacoustics refers to the level of dissonance; The 'roughness' of a line or surface, measured numerically by the Hausdorff dimension; Roughness/resel, the resel/roughness of an image/volume; Unnecessary roughness, a type of foul in gridiron football

  3. Sea state - Wikipedia

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    Sea State 5 and 8 range. In oceanography, sea state is the general condition of the free surface on a large body of water—with respect to wind waves and swell—at a certain location and moment. A sea state is characterized by statistics, including the wave height, period, and spectrum. The sea state varies with time, as the wind and swell ...

  4. Bump mapping - Wikipedia

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    A sphere without bump mapping (left). A bump map to be applied to the sphere (middle). The sphere with the bump map applied (right) appears to have a mottled surface resembling an orange. Bump maps achieve this effect by changing how an illuminated surface reacts to light, without modifying the size or shape of the surface.

  5. Surface roughness - Wikipedia

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    Surface roughness, often shortened to roughness, is a component of surface finish (surface texture). It is quantified by the deviations in the direction of the normal vector of a real surface from its ideal form. If these deviations are large, the surface is rough; if they are small, the surface is smooth.

  6. General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans - Wikipedia

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    GEBCO is the only intergovernmental body with a mandate to map the whole ocean floor. At the beginning of the project, only 6 per cent of the world's ocean bottom had been surveyed to today's standards; as of June 2022, the project had recorded 23.4 per cent mapped. About 14,500,000 square kilometres (5,600,000 sq mi) of new bathymetric data ...

  7. Hydraulic roughness - Wikipedia

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    It quantifies the impact of surface irregularities and obstructions on the flow of water. One roughness coefficient is Manning's n-value. [2] Manning's n is used extensively around the world to predict the degree of roughness in channels. The coefficient is critical in hydraulic engineering, floodplain management, and sediment transport studies.

  8. International roughness index - Wikipedia

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    IQL-1 systems can report varying intervals of roughness. IRI is reported at 10–20-meter or 528-foot (160-meter) intervals for project level collections. IQL-3 at 100m+ intervals. Early measurements were done with a rod-and-level survey technique. The Transportation Research Laboratory developed a beam which had a vertical displacement transducer.

  9. Douglas sea scale - Wikipedia

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    The Douglas sea scale is a scale which measures the height of the waves and also measures the swell of the sea. The scale is very simple to follow and is expressed in one of 10 degrees. The scale is very simple to follow and is expressed in one of 10 degrees.