Scientists find a link between gravity waves in the upper and lower Antarctic atmosphere, helping create a clearer picture of global air circulation. Two years after a CIRES and CU Boulder team ...

Tiny aerosol particles in the air play a big role in regulating how much sunlight our planet absorbs or reflects, and how clouds form above us. In a recent study, researchers found that extreme heat ...

Shock formation represents the process whereby smooth solutions to the governing equations of fluid dynamics undergo a transition to discontinuous states. In compressible fluid dynamics, this ...

Research published in Physical Review Letters by University of Sydney and Tokyo University researchers has found that extreme or ‘rogue’ ocean waves – colossal walls of water that seemingly appear at ...

Have you ever gazed up at the sky and seen clouds that resemble waves in an ocean? These aren't your everyday fluffy cumulus clouds or storm clouds. These are gravity wave clouds -- a fascinating ...

Giant rogue waves are far higher than other waves surrounding them, and they can appear out of nowhere to wreak havoc on ships and shorelines. A new study has shown that the formation of colossal ...

When giant waves —sometimes 30 meters tall, many times the height of the surrounding crests—suddenly rear up out of the ocean, they pose severe threats to even the largest craft. Unlike tsunamis, ...

University of Oxford provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Accounts by mariners of freak or rogue waves out in the ocean have long been a common occurrence but until relatively recently ...