An analysis of 33 years’ worth of data finds that ocean winds and wave heights are becoming more extreme worldwide, with the Southern Ocean seeing the largest increases. In order to examine long ...

Inside the “Draupner Wave” – an historically (and abnormally) large wave, which smashed into an offshore oil platform in ...

Every wave in a swell breaks differently. Waves within one swell range in size and period, so when we say, “six foot at 13 seconds,” we mean that the average height of the largest third of ...

For the UK coast the mean wave height is projected to decrease by about 10% by the end of the century under the most extreme global warming scenario.

California's waves may be getting bigger as climate change worsens, a study has found. The findings, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, used nearly 100 years worth of data ...

Increased winter-mean wave height, variability and periodicity in the North-East Atlantic over 1949-2017. Geophysical Research Letters , 2018; DOI: 10.1002/2017GL076884 Cite This Page : ...