Abstract: Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is widely used for observing sea surfaces and retrieving 2-D wave spectra. However, existing methods for retrieving directional wave spectra from SAR imagettes ...

More than 80 percent of the world’s oceans remain unmapped and unobserved, according to NOAA. Since the 1990s, a network of ...

A broad swath of the Pacific Ocean is simmering from an exceptional marine heat wave that scientists warn could just be settling in. Marine animals are already feeling its effects.

Ocean waves are a vast and steady source of renewable energy, but capturing their power efficiently has long frustrated engineers. A researcher at The University of Osaka has now explored a bold new ...

Coastal waters from San Francisco to Baja California are experiencing a record-breaking marine heat wave. A marine heat wave is a prolonged period of unusually warm ocean temperatures that can disrupt ...

We issues alerts in many instances when the Climate Shift Index identifies a notable extreme weather event around the world that was made more likely by human-caused climate change. Climate Matters is ...