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This concept has been deprecated.

Preferred term

significant_height_of_wind_waves  

Definition

  • Height is the vertical distance above the surface. Wind waves are waves on the ocean surface. Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.)

Note

  • deprecated

URI

https://vocab.met.no/CFSTDN/significant_height_of_wind_waves

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