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This programme comprises two separate case studies. the first describes the classic experiment 'Waves across the pacific', in which Walter Munk and colleagues tracked waves across half the globe fr...om Antarctica to Alaska; the second part describes the mega ripples of sand and sediment which move in response to the strong onshore currents in the shallow waters of the North Sea off England's East Anglian coast.
This programme comprises two separate case studies. the first describes the classic experiment 'Waves across the pacific', in which Walter Munk and colleagues tracked waves across half the globe fr...om Antarctica to Alaska; the second part describes the mega ripples of sand and sediment which move in response to the strong onshore currents in the shallow waters of the North Sea off England's East Anglian coast.
| Module code and title: | S330, Oceanography |
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| Item code: | S330; 05 |
| First transmission date: | 1989 |
| Published: | 1989 |
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| Duration: | 00:25:00 |
| Note: | Loan copy available on compilation video S330/3,4,5,6,7,8 |
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| Producer: | Tony Jolly |
| Contributors: | Walter Munk; John Wright |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Antarctica; East Anglian coastline; Mega-ripples of sand; North Sea; Pacific waves |
| Subject terms: | Ocean waves; Oceanography |
| Master spool number: | HOU6078 |
| Production number: | FOUS533N |
| Videofinder number: | 3701 |
| Available to public: | no |
