Ocean waves are a ubiquitous part of ... The vertical distance between the crest and the trough tells you the wave's height. How tall a wave gets depends on the wind’s speed, duration (how ...

Hendrik Tolman, an ocean wave expert at the National Center ... at Nazare to scientifically measure the wave from trough to crest, McNamara and his team are relying on an old surfer's yardstick ...

But Bill Carter, director of the Center of Applied Ocean Technology at the Marine ... 100-foot figure indeed measures an individual wave crest to trough. “Only 10 minutes of the data from ...

The second season of HBO’s series “100 FOOT WAVE ... It should be crest to trough - they never do that - they start about 20 feet up from the trough. McNamara: In the ocean, it’s not ...

An extreme heat wave off California’s coast seemed like an anomaly 10 years ago. But as the ocean warms, the catastrophe may be a glimpse of the future. Rodeo Beach, Calif., one of the beaches ...

Across the lower latitudes near the Equator, this marine heat wave has been massive. From southern Mexico through the Caribbean and to the western Indian Ocean, 40 percent of the world’s oceans ...