The studying of experts to better understand and predict the force of nature will continuously search for clues and facts to help mankind survive and recover from it. Since there is already a lot of modern equipment at hand, their research can be supported by using it well. At the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), these experts have generated a model that could forecast an impending hurricane or mega waves from its previously captured climate data.

This computer weather model was made to focus on to calculate when a severe weather condition will hit an area, thus advance evacuation procedures can be done to save lives. According to reports from Concord Register, mega waves as high as 30 feet has been occurring more frequently and it has been a growing threat to communities near the shoreline. The 'zoomed' in the model has further sealed the information, contrary to the previous model which has overlooked a lot of tropical cyclones and enormous waves.

Quite alarming, though, some examples from the new weather model shows how the waves of Hawaii can be become much bigger in the future due to global warming. It can already foresee possible weather conditions until the end of the 21st century by its virtual representation of how water, air, and energy exchanges in a recent report from Mail Online. Through its grid boxes, researchers can have a more accurate measurement to sight the formation and path of midlatitude storms.

Smaller grid boxes tend to magnify what seems to be for example the eye of the hurricane, thus this new model with a new measurement of grid boxes can show a much higher resolution compared to its previous counterpart. Observation by a three-hour window shows certain storms were visible on the 25-kilometer high-resolution grid boxes as compared to the 100-kilometer low-resolution grid boxes. These resolutions have also been treated to the same study on wave models.

However, based on Dr. Dáithí Stone of Berkeley Lab, the differences in the resolution can give a considerable detailed report but their models have only relied on wind behaviors. Therefore, subsequent studies must be done on natural occurrences beneath the Earth's surface such as massive waves or waves such as tsunamis caused by an earthquake and other seismological activity.

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