On Hokusai's Great wave off Kanagawa : localization, linearity and a rogue wave in sub-Antarctic waters

• Published in: Notes and Records of the Royal Society
• Main Authors: Dudley, J. M., Sarano, V., Dias, F.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Royal Society 2013
• Subjects: Antarctic; Cartwright; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2012.0066; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsnr.2012.0066; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full-xml/10.1098/rsnr.2012.0066

The Hokusai woodcut entitled The great wave off Kanagawa has been interpreted as an unusually large storm wave, likely to be classed as a rogue wave, and possibly generated from nonlinear wave dynamics (J. H. E. Cartwright and H. Nakamura, Notes Rec. R. Soc. 63 , 119–135 (2009)). In this paper, we p...