Forecasting Tutorial: Reading Wave Models
Gain a deeper understanding into how wave models work and how to read them.
Forecasting Tutorial: Air Masses
Welcome to our first installment on meteorology basics: Swell is generated by wind and wind is the result of air pressure.
Forecasting Tutorial: Wave Period Explained
Coastalwatch's chief swell forecaster, Ben Macartney, scratches beneath the sea surface looking at wave period.
Forecasting Tutorial: Great circles
Waves and swells in the open sea travel in a straight line in the direction of the wind that created them. A straight line drawn on a sphere linking any two points is known as a great circle.
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