While scientists have long studied currents of large eddies, the smaller ones -- called submesoscale eddies -- are notoriously difficult to detect. These currents, which range from several kilometers ...

NASA’s SWOT satellite has measured large river waves for the first time, which were found to be caused by extreme rainfall ...

The SWOT mission is a joint project between NASA and CNES, with contributions from CSA and the UK Space Agency, and represents a new era in observing Earth. Its snapshots of the globe every 21 days ...

I don’t know if you saw the news, but they found Tom Cruise on the roof of the BFI Imax in London this week. And somehow that seemed like a perfectly logical place for a guy like Tom Cruise to be.

In November 2020, a colossal rogue wave was recorded off the coast of Ucluelet, a small town on Vancouver Island, Canada. This extraordinary event saw a wave rise to a height of 17.6 meters ...

In November of 2020, a freak wave came out of the blue, lifting a lonesome buoy off the coast of British Columbia 17.6 meters high (58 feet).

He says a rogue wave tends to happen once every few days, but if it's small, or if there are no people or boats nearby, no one notices. And while the risk of that forming at a height and ...

So, with the largest rogue wave on record at 84 feet ... into consideration how factors like water depth can affect wave height. They also noted that ocean waves are random, while their ...

Rogue waves were once thought to be the stuff of sailing legend, but they are all too real. Defined as a wave that is more than twice the height of the average waves around them, the massive ...

Rogue waves, which are any waves considered to be at least two times the height of the tallest waves around them, can be terrifying to those working at sea. Long reported only anecdotally by ...

A rogue wave is defined as a wave that's 2.2 times higher than the waves around it, said Johannes Gemmrich, a physical oceanographer at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. The waves are ...