Sentences with phrase «increased wave heights»

That has also led to increased wave heights during extreme weather conditions, with levels off the Irish coast increasing 25 millimeters (1 inch) per year during the past 70 years, representing an average increase of 1.7 meters (5.6 feet).

Along the Pacific coast long - term erosion of dunes due to increasing wave heights is projected to be an increasing problem for coastal communities.

Increasing wave heights can cause coastal sand bars to move away from the shore and out to sea.

Not exact matches

Coastal communities around the world will likely see similar wave height increases, dependent on local reef structures and extent of sea level rise.

Things can be rough on the open ocean — and they appear to be getting rougher, with increased average air speed, wave height, and frequency of strong winds and large waves over the past two decades.

The findings suggest that the trees shield the coastline (pdf) by reducing the height and energy of ocean waves and offer hard evidence that deforestation could result in increased coastal damage from storms.

Analyses of wind and significant wave height support reanalysis - based evidence for an increase in extratropical storm activity in the Northern Hemisphere in recent decades until the late 1990s.

This transition occurred during a period of increased SGD - driven nutrient loading, lower wave height, and reduced current speeds.

Monitoring the height and speed of your waves (reps per set), are two excellent ways to increase the progressive overload of your training sets, week - to - week.

Think of the wave as a recirculating sphere that rotates towards the shore, as the seabed becomes gradually steeper and the depth of water decreases more of the waves energy is forced upwards towards the surface, gradually increasing the height of the wave.

The strength and speed of a rip current will likely increase as wave height and wave period increase.

Starting off at Green Bowls to find wave height a solid over head to double head high plus but also by this time the wind had turned more to the SSW and increased to 4 - 7knot.

Around midday or shortly there after our new swell did start to show itself and wave height was increasing with each new batch of sets.

Hopefully tomorrow we will see a new swell and a slight increase in wave height.

Sms surf report from Lakey Peak on the island of Sumbawa was saying wave height started to increase yesterday afternoon and this morning see's head to head high plus waves hitting the Peak.

This morning the 3rd and our 6.30 AM surf check on the Outer reefs was showing a nice little increase from the day before putting wave height in the waist to head high range.

This mornings surf check on the Outer Reefs of Tuban was as expected showing a solid increase in wave height between Kuta Reef and Airports.

Well this mornings 6.30 AM surf check on the Outer reefs here in Tuban was showing wave height to have increased a little pushing the tempo up into the 2 - 4ft range between Kuta Reef and Airport Left.

Well this mornings 6.30 AM surf check on the Outer reefs here in Tuban was showing wave height to have increased a little pushing the tempo up... [Read more...]

Starting off our day with a 7.30 AM surf check on the Outer Reefs here in Tuban to find wave height had increased into the waist to head high plus range between Kuta Reef... [Read more...]

As the speed of the wave slows down the shape of the wave begins to change Near the shore wave length decreases and wave height increases.

When a wave passes through the ocean, individual water molecules move up and down in a circular motion but they do not move forward or backward As waves approach shore, the wave length decreases and wave height increases When a wave breaks against the shore, the crest outruns the trough and the crest collapses - this is called a breaker (water moves forward and backward at this point).

On the East Coast, a yet - to - be-published study also has showed that average wave heights have been increasing, by a couple of centimeters or so a year.

Since the mid-1970s, buoy data shows the height of the biggest waves off the Northwest coast has increased an average of about four inches a year, or about 10 feet total, according to Peter Ruggiero, an assistant geosciences professor at Oregon State University and the lead author of a study published recently in the journal Coastal Engineering.

Nice thing about the idea is the pumps start working much harder as the storm approaches and wave heights increase.

The study, published in Nature Climate Change last month (13 January), predicts a wave height increase of between 20 and [continue reading...]

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.

In the past 40 years, there has been an increase in the mean wave height over the whole of the North Atlantic, although it is not certain that global change is the cause of this phenomenon.

«This feeds back to decrease wave height, which reduces movement of air toward the center of the hurricane, increasing the central pressure, which in turn slows the winds of the entire hurricane and dissipates it faster.»

University of Queensland (UQ) lead researcher Daniel Harris said the study has shown that tropical coastlines are at a greater immediate risk of erosion from increases in wave heights due to the loss of live corals.

They also find that so far, mean wave heights for their study region are not increasing — though there is a weak indication that storms may be increasing in wave intensity.

Wave energy should go as wave height squared, so a modest increase in average wave height (if it really checks out) might bea bit greater than that, but it will still be orders of magnitude lower than the thermal energy change.

«In general, in clear and calm nights the long - wave radiative flux increases with height, leading to a flux divergence and a cooling of the atmosphere.»