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, John Michael, Sarano, Véronique, Dias, Frédéric
• Other Authors: Franche-Comté Électronique Mécanique, Thermique et Optique - Sciences et Technologies (UMR 6174) (FEMTO-ST), Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard (UTBM)-Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et des Microtechniques (ENSMM)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté COMUE (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté COMUE (UBFC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Longitude 181, School of Mathematical Sciences Dublin, University College Dublin Dublin (UCD)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2013
• Subjects: [SPI.OPTI]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Optics / Photonic; [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-OPTICS]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Optics [physics.optics]; Antarctic; Cartwright; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00908667; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00908667/document; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00908667/file/On_Hokusai_s_great_wave_off_Kanagawa_2013_preprint.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2012.0066

International audience 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)...