Since the 1950s, scientists have known that the Sun emits a stream of particles in a vast wind, carrying away an Earth’s worth of mass every 150 years. This wind of protons sweeps by comets and ...

Dutch research center TNO is setting up a test facility for floating PV plants in Oostvoornse, where it will analyze the impact of wind and waves on floating structures and module yield. TNO Senior ...

In the next upgrade of ECMWF's Integrated Forecasting System (IFS), changes in the ocean wind wave model component will be implemented that improve forecasts. The improvements concern the ...

Ocean wave climate, including wind waves and swells, is essential to human marine activities and global or regional climate systems, and is highly related to harnessing wave energy resources. In this ...

While the nearshore surf zone of a non-tidal sea is dominated by phenomena related to wave energy dissipation, such as wave breaking and wave-driven currents 1, wave propagation in regions located ...

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A University of Melbourne expedition to the southernmost waters encircling Antarctica has discovered that wind drives the formation of colossal rogue waves, and that these unpredictable waves occur ...

Surf’s up: map showing the change in extreme (90th percentile) wave height between 1985-2018. Red indicates increasing values, whereas blue indicates decreases. (Courtesy: University of Melbourne) ...

A lucky alignment of two sun-studying spacecraft may have finally solved a decades-old solar mystery. Data from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe and the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter suggest that ...

Surf's WAY up. Crew and Officers of NOAA Ship FAIRWEATHER Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) Over the last three decades, the seas became stormier and the roughest waves got bigger, according to a ...