As atmospheric carbon dioxide levels continue to rise, the ocean plays a crucial role in helping to reduce the full impact of ...

Ocean weather includes phenomena such as meandering currents and fronts, eddies, the surface mixed layer and sea surface temperature (SST), equatorial and coastally trapped waves, upwelling of cold ...

In addition to general ocean warming, marine ecosystems are also affected by marine heat waves. These are limited periods in which the temperature of the upper water layers exceeds a threshold ...

Take a deep dive below sea level in Fiji and learn about the collaboration working to save the reefs that support the world's ...

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But when a wave with a high directional spreading breaks, it can keep growing.” Three-dimensional waves occur due to waves propagating in different directions. The extreme form of this is when wave ...

JANET SPRINTALL, TERESA K. CHERESKIN, COLM SWEENEY, HIGH-RESOLUTION UNDERWAY UPPER OCEAN AND SURFACE ATMOSPHERIC OBSERVATIONS IN DRAKE PASSAGE, Oceanography, Vol. 25, No. 3, SPECIAL ISSUE ON ANTARCTIC ...

At least three beachgoers were swept into the ocean by strong waves on Oahu’s North Shore this week, leaving an Oklahoma woman and California man dead. High waves sweep beachgoers into the ocean ...

There is more to the ocean’s waves than just rolling and breaking. ... 1995 a laser at the North Sea Draupner gas platform about 100 miles off the coast of Norway measured a rogue wave 83 feet high.

The National Weather Service issued high surf advisories Thursday morning for large portions Northern California, with waves up to 30 feet high expected to hit portions of the coast until Sunday.