Average winter wave heights along the Atlantic coast of Western Europe have been rising for almost seven decades, according to new research.
Not exact matches
Winter surf season in the DR: Between October and April the
waves are biggest (
average between shoulder and double overhead
waves) and very good for intermediate to expert surfers.
Data gleaned from 56 meteorological stations showed heat
waves increasing from 1980 to 2009, a period marked by glacier retreats, steadily rising
average temperature in the Indus delta and changes in temperature behaviour in summer and
winter.
During the
winter storms of 2013 - 2014, extreme
wave conditions were five times more frequent than normal, and
wave heights were 40 % higher than
average.
The hand
waving about el Nino etc and probabilities of «drier than
average»
Winter / Spring 2014 are not really a useful risk management tool.
Tropospheric
waves (purple line) entering the lower stratosphere throughout
winter 2017/18 compared to the 1980 - 2017 maximum,
average, and minimum (gray lines).
The coastlines of Scotland and Ireland have seen the largest increases, with the
average height of
winter waves more than 10 millimeters (more than 0.4 inches) per year higher than in 1948.
Hywind 1, designed around a hull fabricated by French contractor Technip and topped out with a 2.3 MW Siemens turbine, has performed superbly since switch on in 2009, weathering winds of 40 metres per second (m / s) and
winter waves 15 metres high — and churning out close to 35GWh at an
average capacity of 50 %.
Hywind 1, the prototype topped out with a 2.3 MW Siemens turbine, has performed superbly since switch on in 2009, weathering winds of 40 metres per second (m / s) and
winter waves 15 metres high — and churning out electricty at an
average capacity of over 50 %.
The Hywind 2s will have to bring their «A» game to the operation phase of the project, however, as their forerunner has performed superbly over its lifetime, weathering winds of 40 metres per second (m / s) and
winter waves 15 metres high — and producing at an
average capacity of 50 %.