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Winds and associated wave heights, SF Bay

By Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
Map shows a large bay near the ocean shaded to show how extreme winds would affect wave heights in the parts of the bay.
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Detailed Description

Direction of extreme winds (black arrows, wind speed greater than 24 meters/second [m/s]) that produce maximum locally generated waves throughout San Francisco Bay (color shading). h, wave height.

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Public Domain.