Oceanic rogue waves

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 40, Issue , 2008, Pages 287-310

  Dysthe, Kristian ^a   Krogstad, Harald E ^b   Müller, Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Extreme; Freak; Physics; Statistics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITY WAVES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS; WATER WAVES;

SECOND-ORDER RANDOM-WAVE THEORY;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITY WAVES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEAN CURRENTS; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS; WATER WAVES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GRAVITY WAVE; OCEAN WAVE; RANDOM WAVE; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE MODELING;

EID: 39049145340     PISSN: 00664189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.fluid.40.111406.102203     Document Type: Article

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