The Surfer’s Guide to How Waves Are Formed

As the early surf pioneers began to observe, and as advances in more recent wave forecasting has confirmed, there are a few ...
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Going Surfing? Understanding How Waves Are Formed Will Help You Score

Surfers have taken to the ocean for centuries. Ancient Polynesian civilizations were surfing as far back as 2,000 BC, and there is evidence of wave riding in 12th-century Hawaii. Of course, back then, ...
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Ocean wave formation study improves forecasting for coastal flood protection

Scientists at the University of Miami's Alfred C. Glassell Jr. SUrge‐STructure‐Atmosphere INteraction (SUSTAIN) laboratory conducted a first-of-its-kind study into how waves form and increase in windy ...
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My research team used 18 years of sea wave records to learn how destructive ‘rogue waves’ form – here’s what we found

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Francesco Fedele, Georgia Institute of Technology (THE CONVERSATION) Rogue waves have ...