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u/rexskimmer · 1 pointr/oceans

Hello fellow wave enthusiast!

For a basic overview, try Surf Science. It's essentially a layman's guide to waves with hardly any math in it.


After that, there's various levels of math you can dive into. Waves are generally easy to formulate in deep water, but when dealing with shallow water, things get bit more complicated. The simpler equations for breaking or shallow water waves are largely empirical, and even then they are paired a lot of assumptions like smooth bottom and constant profile. After that you start getting into the heavy stuff like numerical solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations. You may want to check ocean engineering related textbooks that better connect the math to the physical wave behavior, like this one which I think is a good general textbook on ocean waves.

As for predicting and understanding global wave patterns, that's more meteorology than wave science. You're dealing with wind patterns, cyclone basins, storm prediction etc. Weather models, bouy data, and the numerous NOAA pages all become your best friends. Knowing when your local break works comes mostly from experience. You should watch the local the winds, swell direction, and period and see how things break under given conditions. Of course, keeping an eye on major storms like hurricanes/typhoons also helps.

u/alue42 · 3 pointsr/oceans

Hey, Ocean Engineer here. I took a look at the topics and sample questions for the bowl..you've definitely got your work cut out for you!
Here's two books that I've used during my studies:

Introduction to Physical Oceanography by Knauss

Ocean Energy Conversion by McCormick

Both will give you a great overview of physical aspects of the ocean (currents, tides, wave mechanics, flow, seafloor, interactions with a variety of surfaces, etc) and the second will give you information about technology and renewable energy (definitely a hot topic). They are also both incredibly reasonably priced considering they are textbooks.

It's tough to point you to any one resource that would cover a variety of those topics, but a great resource all things ocean related is Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. On their website they have a section called Ocean Topics and covers just about every topic on the Bowl's list, with links to more references, news articles, and research papers.
http://www.whoi.edu/main/ocean-topics

Best of luck to your team, please come back and tell us how you do!

u/VIJoe · 2 pointsr/oceans

I don't know what Ocean Observing is (unless it is what it sounds like) but how about The Last Navigator by Steve Thomas.

>As a young man piloting a small sailboat across the Pacific, Steve Thomas developed a fascination with ancient methods of navigation. He learned of a seafaring culture which, 6,000 years ago, used arcane navigation arts to guide initiates unerringly across the Pacific with no compasses, no charts. By the time of Christ, these navigators had populated Oceania, nearly a quarter of the Earth’s surface. Thomas ventured to the tiny coral atolls of Micronesia in search of these mysteries, this ancient language of the sea. There he found the last navigator, Mau Piailug. One of the few surviving palu, he belongs to a dying breed who used only natural signs - stars, waves, birds - to guide their sailing canoes across thousands of miles of open ocean. Thomas and Piailug voyage together on the frail ship of human memory in an attempt to preserve for future generations an ancient, mysterious, and beautiful kinship with the sea before it is lost forever. Theirs is an unforgettable journey

u/sverdrupian · 4 pointsr/oceans

A good recent book is Dallas Murphy's To Follow the Water.

u/burtzev · 2 pointsr/oceans

I initially had some difficulty looking up the book because 'Stung' is a much used title, but I presume this is the book you are referring to. It does look interesting.

u/Asteroidea · 2 pointsr/oceans

There's an interesting book that delves deeper into this issue. Granted, it is probably a fair bit longer than it should be, and the author rambles some through the middle chapters, but it's not an issue that seems to get a lot of press.