Rogue Waves in the Ocean (Hardcover, 2009 ed.)

"It came from nowhere, snapping giant ships in two. No one believed the survivors . . . until now" -New Scientist magazine cover, June 30, 2001 Rogue waves are the focus of this book. They are among the waves naturally - served by people on the sea surface that represent an inseparable feature of the Ocean. Rogue waves appear from nowhere, cause danger, and disappear at once. They may occur on the surface of a relatively calm sea and not reach very high amplitudes, but still be fatal for ships and crew due to their unexpectedness and abnormal features. Seamen are known to be unsurpassed authors of exciting and horrifying stories about the sea and sea waves. This could explain why, despite the increasing number of documented cases, that sailors' observations of "walls of - ter" have been considered ctitious for a while. These stories are now addressed again due to the amount of doubtless evidence of the existence of the phenomenon, but still without suf cient information to - able interested researchers and engineers to completely understand it. The billows appear suddenly, exceeding the surrounding waves by two times their size and more, and obtaining many names: abnormal, exceptional, extreme, giant, huge, s- den, episodic, freak, monster, rogue, vicious, killer, mad- or rabid-dog waves, cape rollers, holes in the sea, walls of water, three sisters, etc.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Mathematics
Release date:	2009
First published:	2009
Authors:	Christian Kharif • Efim Pelinovsky • Alexey Slunyaev
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	216
Edition:	2009 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-3-540-88418-7
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Classical mechanics > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Applied physics & special topics > Geophysics Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences > The hydrosphere > Oceanography (seas) Promotions
LSN:	3-540-88418-1
Barcode:	9783540884187

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