It’s instructive, though, that even the trough of this wave is not very ... This, for me, is the crest of the current wave.

The 25-year-old surfing star shows how to ride on the crest of a wave as his career ... converting an impressive ride through the wave face from trough to peak at Huntington Beach, California.

We have to realize that all over this earth, there is a valley for every mountain and for every wave crest there is a trough. We can’t have high tide all the time but we can sure expect it to ...

While the highest part of a wave is known as its crest, its bottom is called a trough. The vertical distance between the crest and the trough tells you the wave's height. How tall a wave gets ...

If the temperature at the crest of the wave equals the dew point temperature, condensation occurs in a lens formation. As the air falls down the trough of the wave, where the temperature and dew ...

Each subduction zone quake generates multiple waves: a crest wave, above the uplifted seafloor, and a trough wave, from the dropped seafloor. The trough side starts with a big dip, or trough ...

Wave height is defined as the distance from the crest of one wave to the trough of the next. The highest waves typically occur in the North Atlantic, because wind circulation patterns and ...

2. THE HOLE: The trough of the wave hits the reef first, sucking water seaward and into a hole or pit. The wave forms as a backless wall rather than a crest behind the hole. 3. OBSTACLES ...