BUFFALO, N.Y. — Last year, onlookers observed a startling site on China’s Qiantang River: waves forming a grid-like pattern. Dubbed the “matrix tide,” this complex wave pattern was caused by the river ...

Having been on the West Coast long enough to gain some perspective, Sarah Versprille has an interesting take on the Pacific Northwest and its gorgeous coastline. The singer of Portland, Oregon–based ...

There are two small moons in orbit around Mars today, but both may be remnants of a much larger moon that had enough of a ...

There are multiple examples of fractal patterns in nature, from peacock feathers, snowflakes, and leaves, to cloud formations and coastlines. A group of graduate students have spotted similar fractal ...

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In October 1943, the oceanographer Arthur Doodson, head of the Liverpool Tidal Institute, got a letter from his friend Commander Ian Farquharson. For months, Doodson and the machine he’d perfected had ...

Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue 64: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 11th INTERNATIONAL COASTAL SYMPOSIUM ICS2011 (2011), pp. 1614-1618 (5 pages) A 3D baroclinic model (Mohid) was used to perform ...

American Journal of Botany, Vol. 72, No. 2 (Feb., 1985), pp. 161-174 (14 pages) Study of seed banks, field seedling emergence, and survival of macrophytes in four zones (steep bank-SB; gentle bank-GB; ...