Extreme Ocean Waves

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Pelinovsky, Efim (Editor), Kharif, Christian (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Geophysics.; Oceanography.; Continuum physics.; Earth Sciences.; Geophysics/Geodesy.; Classical Continuum Physics.

Extreme, freak or rogue waves are produced by a number of physical mechanisms that focus the water-wave energy into a small area, due to wave instability, chaotic behaviour, dispersion (frequency modulation), refraction (presence of variable currents or bottom topography), soliton interactions, etc....