Surf's Up: A Wind Wave's Journey  

The typical ocean wave is actually a surface gravity wave, also known as a wind wave. While the notion that most waves are generated by wind blowing over the ocean surface is fairly straightforward, a wave's exact point of origin is often much less ...
Subject: wavelength
Transcript: That the wind blows over, waves can be short, choppy ones-- And by short and choppy, We might mean the wavelength is short. What do we mean by wavelength