Abstract
Abstract Analyses of hourly measurements of ocean wave heights along the U.S. East Coast, collected since the 1970s by three buoys of the National Data Buoy Center, document a progressive increase during the summer months when hurricanes are most important to wave generation. In contrast, the waves measured during the winter, generated by extratropical storms, have not experienced a statistically significant change. Summer waves with significant wave heights greater than 3 m, which can be directly attributed to specific hurricanes, have increased at a rate of 0.059 m/y (1.8 m in 30 years) according to records from buoy 41002 offshore from Charleston, South Carolina, with a lower rate of 0.024 m/y (0.7 m in 30 years) recorded by the Cape Hatteras buoy (41001); both trends are statistically significant at the 90% level. A still lower rate is found for the Cape May buoy (44004), 0.017 m/y, suggesting that there is a systematic latitude variation. Histograms of the ranges of significant wave heights measured ...
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