Abstract
ONE of the possibilities suggested by Admiralty research on waves and swell during the past two years is that of obtaining information about the wind and waves in a distant storm area by examining the first swell that reaches the coast1,2.
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DEACON, G. Relations Between Sea Waves and Microseisms. Nature 160, 419–421 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160419a0
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