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 ...

Both the crest and trough wave sides propagate in both directions; the crest side sends waves both out into the open ocean and towards the shore, as does the trough side. Subduction zones are ...

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 ...

and amplitudes (the height from trough to crest) meet, they can combine and reinforce each other, resulting in a sudden increase in wave height and power. Other factors include strong ocean ...

Increasing baseline ocean temperatures is worrisome, Amaya said, because it makes marine heat waves more likely to occur and persist for long periods of time. "Every marine heat wave is going to ...

McNamara, an American surfer from Hawaii, put Nazaré’s Praia do Norte (the North Shore) on the map when he surfed a 78-foot wave (from trough to crest) in November 2011. The achievement bested ...

The Northeast Pacific heat wave, known as “the Blob,” spanned the ocean ecosystem from California to the Gulf of Alaska in late 2014 to 2016. The event is considered the largest and longest ...

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 ...