Interesting article on rogue wave theory
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Stemar
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Interesting. I wonder if forecasting will get to the point that they can say, that storm is likely to produce rogue waves in this area, in time for ships to avoid the dodgy bit.
AntarcticPilot
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The stuff about "leakage" of energy from one wave train to another is interesting. On the whole, this is "olds" - oceanographers have been working on rogue waves for decades, since the Draupner wave proved their existence. Remote sensing techniques have even identified regions of the ocean where they are more prevalent; places like the Agulhas Current off South Africa, for example. The non-linearity of waves in the ocean (pointed peaks and rounded troughs) is a well-researched matter; even in the 80s and early 90s when I was working with oceanographers on satellite instruments to measure wave heights (I was interested in the same equipment being used to measure ice caps) they understood the problem but lacked the tools to investigate it fully. There are also issues to do with the statistical distribution of wave-heights not being Gaussian; the standard Gaussian distribution under-represents extreme wave heights.