FREAK WAVES
July 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLSCIENTISTS are studying European Space Agency (ESA) satellite data proving that huge waves of 25 metres height or more are an ever-present hazard to shipping on the high seas. Researchers in the international MaxWave project are examining images culled over three weeks of more than 10 such monster waves. "Having proved they existed, in higher number than anyone expected, the next step is to analyse if they can be forecasted," MaxWave coordinator Dr Wolfgang Rosenthal, of german research organisation GKSS Forschungszentrum, said in a European ...
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