Statistical properties of directional ocean waves: The role of the modulational instability in the formation of extreme events

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Onorato, M ^a   Waseda, T ^b   Toffoli, A ^c   Cavaleri, L ^d   Gramstad, O ^e   Janssen, P A E M ^f   Kinoshita, T ^g   Monbaliu, J ^h   Mori, N ⁱ   Osborne, A R ^a   Serio, M ^a   Stansberg, C T ^j   Tamura, H ^k   Trulsen, K ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c DNV GL   (Norway)

^d INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCES   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^f EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^g INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^h UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

ⁱ KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^j SINTEF OCEAN   (Norway)

^k JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUID DYNAMICS; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SURFACE WAVES;

DIRECTIONAL PROPERTIES; DIRECTIONAL SPREADING; EXTREME EVENTS; FREAK WAVES; LARGE AMPLITUDE WAVES; LARGE-SCALE EXPERIMENTS; MODULATIONAL INSTABILITIES; OCEAN WAVES; SEA STATE; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; STEEP WAVES; WAVE BASINS; WAVE ELEVATIONS;

WATER WAVES;

EID: 63749124898     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.114502     Document Type: Article

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