It's great for surfers, but bad for everyone else.
The team logged seismological records from the 1980s onward to explain why average winter waves increased by about a foot in height per decade.It was, as study author and research oceanographer emeritus Peter Bromirski told the, a labor-intensive process to scan and digitize decades of daily seismograms — but it yielded some pretty impressive results.
The Scripps team found, for example, that between the years of 1996 and 2016, instances of extreme waves more than doubled compared to the decades prior to 1970, around the time scientists believe global warming accelerated.
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