{"id":28049,"date":"2017-05-24T10:13:42","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T10:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=28049"},"modified":"2017-05-24T10:13:42","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T10:13:42","slug":"surfs-up-monstrous-64-foot-wave-measured-in-southern-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2017\/05\/surfs-up-monstrous-64-foot-wave-measured-in-southern-ocean\/","title":{"rendered":"Surf&#8217;s Up: Monstrous 64-foot Wave Measured in Southern Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSouthern Ocean waves are described by sailors as \u2018liquid Himalayas\u2019 and remain largely unstudied, including our ability to forecast them,&#8221; said\u00a0researcher Sally Garrett of the New Zealand Defence Force, shortly after the buoy was launched.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Accurate measurements of these conditions will help us understand waves and air-sea interactions in these extreme conditions,&#8221; Durrant said, referring to the new buoy. &#8220;This, in turn, will lead to improvements in the models used to simulate the waves, providing better forecasts, both for the Southern Ocean and for the wider region.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/weather\/2017\/05\/22\/surfs-up-monstrous-64-foot-wave-measured-southern-ocean\/102009718\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSouthern Ocean waves are described by sailors as \u2018liquid Himalayas\u2019 and remain largely unstudied, including our ability to forecast them,&#8221; said\u00a0researcher Sally Garrett of the New Zealand Defence Force, shortly after the buoy was launched. &#8220;Accurate measurements of these conditions will help us understand waves and air-sea interactions in these extreme conditions,&#8221; Durrant said, referring to the new buoy. &#8220;This, in turn, will lead to improvements in the models used to simulate the waves, providing better forecasts, both for the Southern Ocean and for the wider region.&#8221; Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28049"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28051,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28049\/revisions\/28051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}