and how wave period and direction will affect your ability to make way. Still, making a proper estimation of wave height is significant for assessing your level of safety outside the inlet. So how can ...

Though the wave may not qualify as a "rogue wave," it could have been created by the same forces. To officially be rogue, the wave's height must be more than double the "significant wave height ...

The behemoth, measured at 62.3 feet high by an automated buoy in the North Atlantic, sets a new world record for "significant" wave height. The wave, recorded at 1 p.m. EST on February 4 ...

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has announced that in 2013, a buoy detected the "the highest significant wave height" in recorded history. At a little over 62 feet, the North Atlantic ...

Oceanographers gauge wave height using a metric called “significant wave height,” which is an average of the top third of measured waves. The significant wave height for the storm on May 9 was ...

North Slope whalers might be able to know wave height and direction before going out to the ocean this summer, thanks to the new initiative aiming to make the subsistence lifestyle safer and to ...