Freak waves - more frequent than rare!

International audience Contrary to the widely held notion that considers the occurrence of freak waves in the ocean as being rare, from an examination of five years of wave measurements made in the South Atlantic Ocean, we found the occurrence of freak waves is actually more frequent than rare. Key...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Liu, P. C., Pinho, U. F.
Other Authors: NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Department of Ocean Engineering
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: HAL CCSD 2004
Subjects:
[SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean
Atmosphere
[SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences
South Atlantic Ocean
Online Access:https://hal.science/hal-00317374
https://hal.science/hal-00317374/document
https://hal.science/hal-00317374/file/angeo-22-1839-2004.pdf
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Summary:International audience Contrary to the widely held notion that considers the occurrence of freak waves in the ocean as being rare, from an examination of five years of wave measurements made in the South Atlantic Ocean, we found the occurrence of freak waves is actually more frequent than rare. Key words. Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics (waves and tides) ? Oceanography: physical (surface waves and tides; air-sea interaction)

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