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There’s nowhere to go when a wave breaks right on the sand, they’re typically more closed-out like a wall of water, and they ...
On New Year's Day 1995, a monstrous 80-foot wave in the North Sea slammed into the Draupner oil platform. The wall of water ...
By analyzing 18 years of high-frequency laser measurements from the Ekofisk oil platform in the central North Sea, we reached ...
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Weather Words: 'Rogue Wave'

The National Ocean Service describes rogue waves (also called “extreme storm waves”) as unexpected and dangerous swells that ...
The Central Weather Administration announced Wednesday it is collaborating with National Cheng Kung University on an ...
Seventeen years of North Sea data reveal the ocean patterns behind rogue waves, offering new insight into how these giants ...
The Central Weather Administration (CWA) and National Cheng Kung University have developed a system powered by artificial intelligence (AI) that can predict rogue waves, expected to be rolled out ...
A rogue wave is defined as 2.2 times higher than the waves around it, said Johannes Gemmrich, a physical oceanographer at the University of Victoria in British Columbia.
A rogue wave measuring 58 feet (17.6 m) tall was recorded off the coast of Vancouver Island, breaking records for proportionality at three times the size of surrounding waves.