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  2. Infragravity wave - Wikipedia

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    Classification of the spectrum of ocean waves according to wave period. [3] Technically infragravity waves are simply a subcategory of gravity waves and refer to all gravity waves with periods greater than 30 s. This could include phenomena such as tides and oceanic Rossby waves, but the common scientific usage is limited to gravity waves that ...

  3. Electromagnetic spectrum - Wikipedia

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    The spectrum is divided into separate bands, with different names for the electromagnetic waves within each band. From low to high frequency these are: radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, X-rays, and gamma rays. The electromagnetic waves in each of these bands have different characteristics, such as how they are ...

  4. Infrared - Wikipedia

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    Infrared (IR; sometimes called infrared light) is electromagnetic radiation (EMR) with wavelengths longer than that of visible light but shorter than microwaves. The infrared spectral band begins with the waves that are just longer than those of red light (the longest waves in the visible spectrum), so IR is invisible

  5. Remote sensing (oceanography) - Wikipedia

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    Ocean waves crash or disappear before a new observation is made, features with this time scale are rarer on land. Unlike vegetation, snow and other land covers the ocean is opaque to most electromagnetic radiation [ 9 ] (except for visible light) therefore the ocean surface is easy to monitor but it is a challenge to retrieve information of ...

  6. Microbarom - Wikipedia

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    If the wave groups travel faster than the sound speed, microbaroms are generated, with propagation directions closer to the vertical for the faster wave groups. Pressure field in the ocean and atmosphere associated to groups made by opposing wave trains. Left: short wave groups giving oblique propagation in the atmosphere.

  7. Electromagnetic absorption by water - Wikipedia

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    The gaps between the bands define the infrared window in the Earth's atmosphere. [17] The infrared spectrum of liquid water is dominated by the intense absorption due to the fundamental O-H stretching vibrations. Because of the high intensity, very short path lengths, usually less than 50 μm, are needed to record the spectra of aqueous solutions.

  8. Infrared spectroscopy - Wikipedia

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    A probe pulse is then applied, resulting in the emission of a signal from the sample. The nonlinear two-dimensional infrared spectrum is a two-dimensional correlation plot of the frequency ω 1 that was excited by the initial pump pulses and the frequency ω 3 excited by the probe pulse after the waiting time. This allows the observation of ...

  9. Wave - Wikipedia

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    This phenomenon arises as a result of interference between two waves traveling in opposite directions. The sum of two counter-propagating waves (of equal amplitude and frequency) creates a standing wave. Standing waves commonly arise when a boundary blocks further propagation of the wave, thus causing wave reflection, and therefore introducing ...