SAN FRANCISCO – Engineers who were studying beach erosion got more than they bargained for recently when they discovered unexpected wave behavior in the water along an east coast shoreline. The ...
AUSTIN (KXAN) — A phenomenon called Kelvin waves has just been detected in the Pacific Ocean — a sign that the developing El Niño pattern is imminent. The International Sea Level Satellite, the ...
Far from shore and hidden beneath the waves, scientists are tracking swirling columns of water that behave like slow-motion ...
If you ever see the rare phenomenon known as square waves, also known as a cross-sea, in the ocean, get out immediately. While most waves form parallel to the shore and break at the coastline, square ...
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Journal of Coastal Research, SPECIAL ISSUE No. 95. An International Forum for the Littoral Sciences (SPRING 2020), pp. 996-1000 (5 pages) It is currently impossible to accurately estimate coastal ...
A size comparison of the "Draupner Wave" to 3 school buses stacked horizontally on top of one another. On New Year’s Day 1995, a monstrous 80-foot wave in the North Sea slammed into the Draupner oil ...
A powerful 2025 Kuril-Kamchatka earthquake generated a Pacific-wide tsunami, captured by NASA's SWOT satellite. These unprecedented high-resolution i ...
Global wave power, which is the transport of the energy transferred from the wind into sea-surface motion, has increased globally by 0.4 percent per year since 1948. (Photo by C. Lagattuta) Sea level ...