3D ocean waves have more complex movements. They form when waves are all coming in from different directions and shoot vertically instead of solely horizontal and then cresting.

In a Nature Communications paper, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) math professor Yuri V. Lvov, Ph.D., and a team of oceanographers develop a first-of-its-kind model of internal wave dynamics ...

An international research team led by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon has, for the first time, succeeded in visualizing and ...

Ocean waves determine where people build infrastructure, such as ports and harbors, or require protection through coastal defenses such as breakwaters and levees. Indeed, wave action is one of the ...

In a new study, Wu’s team developed and tested a way to use earthquake-generated sound waves traveling across the East Indian Ocean to estimate temperature changes in those waters from 2005 to 2016.

We used three-dimensional imaging of ocean waves to capture freakish seas that produce a notorious phenomenon known as rogue waves. Our results are now published in Physical Review Letters ...

Strong winds are driving the ocean’s biggest waves to dizzying new heights. That’s the potentially ominous finding of new research that analyzed more than 30 years’ worth of global wind and ...

Extreme ocean winds and waves have become more common over the past three decades, according to scientists who warn climate change could be causing the trend. A team of experts at the University ...

Withstanding the waves to harvest the wind. Innovative construction methods are enabling the mass production of floating platforms for wind turbines that can be used far offshore.

Overall, heat waves are lasting about 17 percent longer than before, and their frequency has increased by about a third. The researchers say that rising ocean temperatures, driven by human-caused ...

As heat waves warm the Pacific Ocean, effects on marine life remain murky. A variety of fish swim along a kelp forest off Catalina Island in 2016. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) ...