Correction to: Nature Reviews Earth & Environment https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-023-00502-0, published online 9 January 2024.

In the version of the article initially published, the Acknowledgements section was missing the following text: “This paper is a contribution of the Coordinated Ocean Wave Climate Project (COWCLiP) group, working to the formal workplan of the WMO Standing Committee on Marine Meteorology and Oceanography. IMOS data were sourced from Australia’s Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) – IMOS is enabled by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). We also thank the European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative (CCI) for providing the Sea State CCI datasets.” This has now been inserted in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.