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An illustration showing several instruments observing the ocean: a drifting buoy, a moored platform, an autonomous glider, sensors on the back of a sea turtle, a profiling float, a research vessel with a CTD rosette. Information is sent to a satellite. On the shore, there is a sea level gauge. Two children are studying the water while an adult woman watches over them.

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  • Ocean Observers - the comic
  • Teaching materials
    • 5-8 years old
    • 9-11 years old
    • 12-18 years old
      • Experiment on water temperature and density [video]
      • Experiment on water salinity and density [video]
      • Experiment on salinity and saturation [video]
      • How to simulate heat transfer between water and sand
      • Building a glider [video]
      • Play with the tides
      • Human health and the ocean
      • Recreate a marine food web
      • Which phytoplankton are you?
      • Travel through the carbon cycle
      • 5 units on the Mediterranean sea
        • Unit 1: "The Mediterranean Sea"
        • Unit 2: "Seawater"
        • Unit 3: "Wind"
        • Unit 4: "Waves"
        • Unit 5: "Ocean currents"
    • All ages
  • Learn about observing the ocean
  • Discover the working group
  • About the initiative
  • Photo gallery
English (United Kingdom)
English (United Kingdom)
  • Teaching materials
    • 5-8 years old
    • 9-11 years old
    • 12-18 years old
    • All ages
  • 12-18 years old
    • Experiment on water temperature and density [video]
    • Experiment on water salinity and density [video]
    • Experiment on salinity and saturation [video]
    • How to simulate heat transfer between water and sand
    • Building a glider [video]
    • Play with the tides
    • Human health and the ocean
    • Recreate a marine food web
    • Which phytoplankton are you?
    • Travel through the carbon cycle
    • 5 units on the Mediterranean sea
  • 5 units on the Mediterranean sea
    • Unit 1: "The Mediterranean Sea"
    • Unit 2: "Seawater"
    • Unit 3: "Wind"
    • Unit 4: "Waves"
    • Unit 5: "Ocean currents"
  • Unit 4: "Waves"

Unit 4: "Waves"

  • application/pdf Waves (English)
  • application/pdf El oleaje (Spanish)
  • application/pdf L'onatge (Catalan)

Learn how waves are formed and how we study the sea state.

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Watch the corresponding video on the Medclic website: Waves

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Wind DBCP buoys
Last update on 19/09/2023

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