Scientists exploring the deep sea have discovered a distinctive kind of breaking wave. The finding reveals the presence of a subtle new force that can stir the dark seabed, and it helps to explain ...

Big waves from hurricanes like Irene in 2011 or Superstorm Sandy last October or even nor’easters like one that lingered in Delaware last week erode shorelines and the beach and dunes. But it turns ...

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The chaos from skyscraper-tall waves breaking deep underwater has been captured for the first time, researchers say. Turbulence from these waves can generate thousands of times more mixing in the deep ...

Tsunamis, also known as seismic sea waves, can be devastating. In 2004, a 100-foot wave in the Indian Ocean resulted in at least 230,000 deaths in one of the deadliest natural disasters in human ...

Researchers have now identified a less dramatic though far more pervasive source of acoustic-gravity waves: surface ocean waves, such as those that can be seen from a beach or the deck of a boat.

As the waves of a tsunami approach a coastline, the topography of the seafloor near the coast plays a major role in determining how large those waves become and what places get hit harder than others.

Waves from large hurricanes can be powerful enough to permanently change artificial reef systems Researcher says superstorm Sandy was powerful in its offshore destruction but so was Hurricane Irene in ...