Sea can cause individual (unexpected) rogue waves much higher than normal. Most waves are less than high and it is not unusual for strong storms to double or triple that height; offshore construction such as wind farms and oil platforms use metocean statistics from measurements in computing the wave forces (due to for instance the hundred-year wave) they are designed against. Rogue waves, however, have been documented at heights above . The top of a wave is known as the crest, the lowest point between waves is the trough and the distance between the crests is the wavelength. The wave is
Sound power temperature, the sound power level at distance "r" from the sound source is approximately related to sound pressure level (SPL) by where Derivation of this equation: For a "progressive" spherical wave, where "z" is the characteristic specific acoustic impedance. Consequently, and since by definition , where is the reference sound pressure, The sound power estimated practically does not depend on distance. The sound pressure used in the calculation may be affected by distance due to viscous effects in the propagation of sound unless this is accounted for. Sound power Sound power or acoustic power is the rate at which sound