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Re: Dip uncertainty
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2004 Dec 6, 22:53 -0500
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2004 Dec 6, 22:53 -0500
On Dec 6, 2004, at 9:16 AM, Trevor J. Kenchington wrote: > With anything of a sea running, of course, the uncertainties in the > horizon and in the true height of eye that are produced by wave action > are likely to overwhelm anomalies in dip for an observer close to the > sea surface (except perhaps under the most extreme conditions). > Bruce Bauer had exactly the opposite take on this.
