We often see waves in the ocean, but don’t know how it gets generated. It is really a wonderful process that occurs naturally. People all over the world come at sea beach to see the waves. Some people try to find out the science behind the creation of ocean waves and some of them enjoy watching it instead of finding the reason that creates the ocean waves.
Today this query comes in my mind and I started searching its answer. I found that the waves are created by energy when it moves through water. The energy movement through water makes it move in a circular motion. According to scientists, waves don’t push water, only passes on energy across the ocean. If the ocean waves collide with an obstruction, they stopped moving. Otherwise they are proficient to move across a whole ocean.
The waves that you see in the ocean are normally created by wind. When wind collides with the surface area of ocean, they generate the waves called Wind-driven waves or surface waves. While moving across the ocean, the wind comes in contact with the water surface and causes a wave crest if they experience frequent disturbance.
These types of waves are nothing. The waves that cause huge destruction are known as a hurricane created by terrible weather. During awful weather, a chain of long waves are created by strong winds somewhere in the deeper water and become enlarged as they reach near the beach area. These types of waves are also known as storm surge. The waves generated by underwater disturbance are very dangerous because it can move huge amount of water from one place to another. These long waves are known as tsunamis. Storm surge and tsunami are different from other waves as they are potentially capable to cross seashore and reach land area.
I know that the gravitational force of the sun and moon also creates the ocean wave, but these types of waves are known as tides or tidal wave. They are actually different from dangerous types of waves like tsunami or storm surge. However tsunami or storm surge can occur during tidal waves.
Source: https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/wavesinocean.html