On Hokusai's Great wave off Kanagawa: localization, linearity and a rogue wave in sub-Antarctic waters
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 pr...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:3645210 2023-05-15T13:37:10+02:00 On Hokusai's Great wave off Kanagawa: localization, linearity and a rogue wave in sub-Antarctic waters Dudley, J. M. Sarano, V. Dias, F. 2013-06-20 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3645210 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2012.0066 en eng The Royal Society http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3645210 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2012.0066 © 2013 The Author(s) Published by the Royal Society. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. CC-BY Research Articles Text 2013 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2012.0066 2013-09-04T23:21:36Z 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 present a complementary discussion of this hypothesis, discussing in particular how linear and nonlinear mechanisms can both contribute to the emergence of rogue wave events. By making reference to the Great wave's simultaneous transverse and longitudinal localization, we show that the purely linear mechanism of directional focusing also predicts characteristics consistent with those of the Great wave. In addition, we discuss the properties of a particular rogue wave photographed on the open ocean in sub-Antarctic waters, which shows two-dimensional localization and breaking dynamics remarkably similar to Hokusai's depiction in the woodcut. Text Antarc* Antarctic PubMed Central (PMC) Antarctic Cartwright ENVELOPE(175.133,175.133,-84.350,-84.350) Notes and Records of the Royal Society 67 2 159 164 |
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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 present a complementary discussion of this hypothesis, discussing in particular how linear and nonlinear mechanisms can both contribute to the emergence of rogue wave events. By making reference to the Great wave's simultaneous transverse and longitudinal localization, we show that the purely linear mechanism of directional focusing also predicts characteristics consistent with those of the Great wave. In addition, we discuss the properties of a particular rogue wave photographed on the open ocean in sub-Antarctic waters, which shows two-dimensional localization and breaking dynamics remarkably similar to Hokusai's depiction in the woodcut. |
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On Hokusai's Great wave off Kanagawa: localization, linearity and a rogue wave in sub-Antarctic waters |
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