There has been a greater incidence of severe winds and increasing wave heights (by about 2% per year) in western and northern UK territorial waters over the past 50 years.
Different modelling approaches project different scales of change but indicate that wind strengths and wave heights will increase.
HIGH
(present)
LOW
(future)
MCCIP derived these headlines from the information supplied in the following reports, which provide a more comprehensive review of scientific understanding in this field.
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