A Chinese team studying “internal waves” so strong they can sink submarines in the Andaman Sea say they have developed a computer model to predict when and where the worst ones are likely to happen.
They focused on a particular area of the sea, where some of the world’s largest internal waves – or sudden changes in ocean density – occur, near the western end of the Strait of Malacca.
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