"surging waves" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It could be used to describe anything from the ocean to a metaphorical idea, such as emotions or energy. For example, "The surging waves of emotion were too much to contain."
Players in Rikuzentakata escaped the surging waves that then engulfed their school by running to a field on higher ground.
The ship's deck was crowded with people, and, as the officers watched, men and women jumped over the side, falling twenty feet into the surging waves below.
A section of its fishing pier, about 150 feet long, that extends over the Atlantic was toppled by towering, surging waves.
The devastation would have been worse had the banks of an elevated highway about two miles inland not served as a buffer against the surging waves.
The power of the tide is palpable in the surging waves and eroded rock in "Fog Off Mount Desert," his lush, fascinating 1850 seascape.
This reef no longer has any ecosystem services: it's not valuable for fishing, for tourism, for filtration and certainly not as a coastal protection against surging waves or tsunamis.
The effect was of a constant roiling motion, like surging ocean waves that crested, fell and nibbled at a shore.
The surging tidal waves have left over 27,000 people dead and over 1,000 people missing in the country.
Ms. Salvatore said flood insurance covers direct physical losses caused by storms, flash floods, abnormal tidal surges, waves and the like.
This simulation methodology was applied to compute bay water levels for two major coastal storms taking into account contributions from storm surge, waves, wind, and barrier island overwash and breaching.
In this paper the submarine landslide-generated surge model in TOPICS is employed to predict the initial surge source generated by movement of Landslide S4, and Boussinesq equation FUNWAVE module of Geowave is utilized to calculate spreading and run-up of surge waves (Applied Fluids Engineering Inc and University of Delaware, U.S.A [2008]).
