Rogue waves and their generating mechanisms in different physical contexts

M Onorato, S Residori, U Bortolozzo, A Montina… - Physics Reports, 2013 - Elsevier
Rogue waves is the name given by oceanographers to isolated large amplitude waves, that
occur more frequently than expected for normal, Gaussian distributed, statistical events …

Oceanic rogue waves

K Dysthe, HE Krogstad, P Müller - Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech., 2008 - annualreviews.org
Oceanic rogue waves are surface gravity waves whose wave heights are much larger than
expected for the sea state. The common operational definition requires them to be at least …

Physical mechanisms of the rogue wave phenomenon

C Kharif, E Pelinovsky - European Journal of Mechanics-B/Fluids, 2003 - Elsevier
A review of physical mechanisms of the rogue wave phenomenon is given. The data of
marine observations as well as laboratory experiments are briefly discussed. They …

On kurtosis and occurrence probability of freak waves

N Mori, PAEM Janssen - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2006 - journals.ametsoc.org
Based on a weakly non-Gaussian theory, the occurrence probability of freak waves is
formulated in terms of the number of waves in a time series and the surface elevation …

Rogue waves in 2006–2010

I Nikolkina, I Didenkulova - Natural hazards and Earth system …, 2011 - nhess.copernicus.org
The evidence of rogue wave existence all over the world during last five years (2006–2010)
has been collected based mainly on mass media sources. Only events associated with …

The physics of anomalous ('rogue') ocean waves

TAA Adcock, PH Taylor - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
There is much speculation that the largest and steepest waves may need to be modelled
with different physics to the majority of the waves on the open ocean. This review examines …

Freak waves as nonlinear stage of Stokes wave modulation instability

VE Zakharov, AI Dyachenko, AO Prokofiev - European Journal of …, 2006 - Elsevier
Numerical simulation of evolution of nonlinear gravity waves is presented. Simulation is
done using two-dimensional code, based on conformal map** of the fluid to the lower half …

On the estimation of the kurtosis in directional sea states for freak wave forecasting

N Mori, M Onorato… - Journal of Physical …, 2011 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract Based on Monte Carlo simulations of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation in two
horizontal dimensions, the dependence of the kurtosis on the directional energy distribution …

Observations of rogue seas in the Southern Ocean

A Toffoli, A Alberello, H Clarke, F Nelli, A Benetazzo… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
We report direct observations of surface waves from a stereo camera system along with
concurrent measurements of wind speed during an expedition across the Southern Ocean in …

Characteristics of abnormal waves in North Sea storm sea states

CG Soares, Z Cherneva, EM Antão - Applied Ocean Research, 2003 - Elsevier
A data set of storm wave records from the North Sea is analysed. Using current definitions of
abnormal waves, eight of the largest wind waves are defined as abnormal waves. Twenty …