The ocean serves as a sanctuary for a quick dip, a walk along the shore or a surf break between classes. However, its powers ...

From the Atlantic to the Pacific, beachgoers are being warned to stay out of the water as a surge of hazardous ocean ...

In a nutshell Milky seas are real, massive bioluminescent events that are sometimes larger than 100,000 square kilometers.

Scientists at the University of Miami's Alfred C. Glassell Jr. SUrge‐STructure‐Atmosphere INteraction (SUSTAIN) laboratory ...

A century of observation and experiment has revealed much about how these waves are generated and propagated Men have always been fascinated, and sometimes awed, by the rhythmic motions of the sea ...

Mesoscale eddies can affect how sound waves propagate in the ocean, depending on their size, speed, current direction and ...

Yet in the ocean, waves can travel in many directions and rarely fit ... “Whether we want it or not, water waves are more often three-dimensional than two-dimensional in the real world. In 3D, there ...

These ripples are waves travelling through the water. Like ocean waves, these ripples are transverse waves because the surface of the water moves up and down, at 90° to the direction that the ...

Lesley Murphy, an American travel journalist, recently experienced the ocean’s wrath on a commercial polar expedition when her ship was rocked by 35-foot waves in the Drake Passage. It happened on a ...

P-waves are the faster seismic waves, while S-waves are slower and cannot travel through water because liquid does not permit that kind of oscillation perpendicular to motion. Seismometers ...