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Wave Height's Traditionally Measured from the Back
- "The vertical distance from the crest of a wave to the trough BEHIND it is the wave height." - excerpt from "The Beaches Are Moving" by Wallace Kaufman and Orrin Pilkey, Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1979, pg. 66.
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