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fetch: a standalone construct

One name. One construct. A landmark on the map.

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fetch1 CONSTRUCTWind fetchWIND FETCH

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Oceanography

The distance wind blows over water

In oceanography and marine meteorology, the fetch is the length of open water over which a wind blows in a constant direction, and it is one of the three controls, together with wind speed and duration, that set how large wind-driven waves grow. A longer fetch lets the sea absorb more energy from the wind, producing higher, longer-period waves, which is why sheltered bays stay calm while open oceans build large swell. Holthuijsen's Waves in oceanic and coastal waters treats fetch as a governing length scale in wave growth. The referent is a distance over water, measured in kilometres, and it is unrelated to a processor loading an instruction or a folkloric apparition.[1]

Unit
The over-water distance, in kilometres, that a wind blows in one direction
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Estimated from the geometry of open water upwind along the wind direction, bounded by coastlines or wind shifts

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References

  1. Holthuijsen, L. H. (2007). Waves in oceanic and coastal waters. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521860284

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