Extreme Ocean Waves by Efim Pelinovsky and Christian Kharif
English | 2008 | ISBN: 1402083130 | 200 Pages | PDF | 6 MB
English | 2008 | ISBN: 1402083130 | 200 Pages | PDF | 6 MB
Extreme, freak or rogue waves are produced by a number of physical mechanisms that focus the water-wave energy into a small area, due to wave instability, chaotic behaviour, dispersion (frequency modulation), refraction (presence of variable currents or bottom topography), soliton interactions, etc.