Sentences with phrase «significant wave heights»

In addition, Sentinel - 3B will as well measure sea ice thickness and significant wave heights, the latter will be assimilated into MET Norway's wave forecast model, also a contribution to the Copernicus Marine Services.

The Delta Flume boasts bigger waves; the maximum significant wave height — a measure of a storm's intensity — is 2.2 meters, but individual waves may top out at 4.5 meters.

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 series of plots shows significant wave height (in meters, indicated by color scale) in the western Arctic Ocean during the 2016 Arctic cyclone, from August 14 to August 16, 2016, as predicted by a numerical wave model (WAVEWATCH III), run at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL).

Over the ocean this includes: sea surface slope and surface current, significant wave height, wind speed and sea level from radar altimetry at about 10 km resolution: sea surface temperature under cloud free conditions from the infrared radiometer at about 300 m resolution; chlorophyll a and phytoplankton from the imaging spectrometer under cloud free conditions at about 300 m resolution.

Not exact matches

During this time, the islands were subjected to ongoing sea level rise and the passage of a notable typhoon... which caused severe damage with its > 100 knot winds and abnormal wave heights... caused a decrease in total island land area of approximately five percent, yet Ford and Kench write that «despite [this] significant typhoon - driven erosion and a relaxation period coincident with local sea - level rise, [the] islands have persisted and grown.»

I was thinking about the potential value of wave heights as proxy for temps, not the energy stored — is it really possible that that's significant relative to the thermal energy?

Typical marine forecasts predict wind speed and direction, wave heights and periods, roughness of near shore waters, and significant weather.