SAN FRANCISCO – Engineers who were studying beach erosion got more than they bargained for recently when they discovered unexpected wave behavior in the water along an east coast shoreline. The ...

Scientists are worried that the recent extreme ocean warming is a sign we haven't kept up with how quickly the planet is ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A phenomenon called Kelvin waves has just been detected in the Pacific Ocean — a sign that the developing El Niño pattern is imminent. The International Sea Level Satellite, the ...

If you ever see the rare phenomenon known as square waves, also known as a cross-sea, in the ocean, get out immediately. While most waves form parallel to the shore and break at the coastline, square ...

Along Portugal’s Atlantic rim, Nazaré has become shorthand for oceanic extremes, where 7‑story waves rise like moving ...

Beautiful chevron-shaped cloud patterns have been pictured stretching over the southern Indian Ocean by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station. The photograph, featured as NASA Earth ...

New research finds that a warming planet will also alter ocean waves along more than 50% of the world's coastlines. This research has significant implications for coastal flooding and erosion. New ...

Journal of Coastal Research, SPECIAL ISSUE No. 95. An International Forum for the Littoral Sciences (SPRING 2020), pp. 996-1000 (5 pages) It is currently impossible to accurately estimate coastal ...