NOAA's National Ocean Service puts it this way: The recipe for a hurricane is: "A pre-existing weather disturbance: A hurricane often starts out as a tropical wave. "Warm water: Water at least 26. ...

As crews work to remove potentially hundreds of thousands of tons of hazardous materials from the Los Angeles wildfires, researchers and officials are trying to understand how the fires on land have i ...

Researchers have discovered various topological structures in water waves (skyrmions, merons, Möbius and vortices with ...

When Palacio and her team examined coral reefs after the 2015–2016 heat wave, they found that particular corals called ...

To stand at the edge of an ocean is to face an eternity of waves and water, a shroud covering seven-tenths of the Earth. Hidden below are mountain ranges and canyons that rival anything on land.

During their observation period, four tropical cyclone events passed through the study area, each triggering different vertical propagation characteristics of near-inertial internal waves.

If they form over the Atlantic Ocean ... As tropical storms require warm oceans, they are normally found in tropical regions between 5° and 30° north and south of the equator where the water ...