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Lucy Bricheno

Oceanographer and Group Head of Coastal Ocean at the National Oceanography Centre in Liverpool, specialising in hydrodynamic and wave modelling.

Oct 16, 2026

22:44
Mm.
22:44
So if you think, if you're sat outside, uh, out at sea on your fishing boat, whatever, the waves coming at you from all directions, not very regular, not very interesting.
22:52
Uh, but if it hits some, some land, got a spit or an island, gets in the way, and that changes how the waves propagate.
22:57
So you can have cross seas with no land.
22:59
Like, you got a storm coming from the north, get some northerlies, get some westerlies.
23:03
You get two patterns of waves, those two, like, coming together, and then you'll get that sort of cross pattern if it's, like, perfect.
23:08
Or the other way is if it's interacting with the land, like the coastline.
26:45
Across an entire ocean

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