Waves and swell are created by wind. Around the earth, we have areas of high air pressure and areas of low air pressure in the atmosphere. Think of the air as liquid, as water. The areas of high ...

sound waves cause air particles to vibrate back and forth ripples cause water particles to vibrate up and down Waves cause a disturbance of the medium through which they travel. This allows them to ...

An artistic impression of the high-frequency retrograde vorticity waves. These waves appear as swirling motions near the Sun's equator. The rotation in the north is always anti-symmetric to the ...