Waves — generation and types. Waves provide about half the energy to do work at the coast. Ocean waves are generated by wind blowing over the ocean surface. The stronger the wind, the longer it ...

The biggest, baddest waves ... ten feet high; during storms, 30-footers are common. But what creates waves the size of office buildings, including the ones big-wave surfers covet and coastal ...

The National Weather Service issued a high ... waves that could surge much farther up the shore than usual and pull ...