Rogue waves are unusually large waves compared to ones which come before and after, pose a threat to ships, coastal and offshore infrastructure, and human lives.
There is no method existed to forecast rogue waves until now.
Using billions of data points collected by a network of 172 ocean buoys, an artificial intelligence has trained to distinguish wave patterns that preceded rogue waves, up to five minutes in advance.
The WMO sea state code characterises sea state based on wave height on a scale of 0 (no waves) to 9 (waves over 14 m).