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 ...

In the 15 years the program has operated a station in that location, the significant wave height ... recreate the motion of the wave, its height and direction. They can sense how long a ...

Researchers from Institute of Marine Systems (IMS) at TalTech and Estonian Environment Agency have created a model to predict the height and direction of a significant wave in the Baltic Sea. If ...

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 ...

Figure 2: Projected future changes in multi-model averaged significant wave height. Features of projected ... changes in 10 m wind speed and direction due to anthropogenic climate change.

The buoy measured a single wave at 74.4 feet from a set of waves over a 30-minute period that averaged out to a 43-foot “significant wave height ... move in the same direction and speed ...

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 ...

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 ...

Similarly to residents in Point Hope, Utqiagvik and other places, Hopson installed several buoys close to Wainwright to measure wave height ... of the most culturally significant subsistence ...