Extreme ocean waves

This revised and updated second edition details the vast progress that has been achieved in the understanding of the physical mechanisms of rogue wave phenomenon in recent years. The selected articles address such issues as the formation of rogue waves due to modulational instability of nonlinear wave field, physical and statistical properties of extreme ocean wave generation in deep water as well as in shallow water, various models of nonlinear water waves, special analysis of nonlinear resonances between water waves and the relation between in situ observations, experimental data and rogue wave theories. In addition, recent results on tsunami waves due to subaerial landslides are presented.

Rogue waves in higher order nonlinear Schrödinger models / constance M. Schober and Annalisa Calini -- Freak-waves: compact equation versus fully nonlinear one / A.I. Dyachenko, D.I. Kachulin and V.E. Zakharov -- Occurrence of extreme waves in finite water depth / Leandro Fernandez, Miguel Onorato, Jaak Monbaliu and Alessandro Toffoli -- Modeling of rogue wave shapes in shallow water / T. Talipova, C. Kharif and J.P. Giovanangeli -- Non-Gaussian properties of shallow water waves in crossing seas / Alessandro Toffoli, Miguel Onorato, A.R. Osborne and Jaak Monbaliu -- Searching for factors that limit observed extreme maximum wave height distributions in the North Sea / Gerrit Burgers, Frits Koek, Hans de Vries and Martin Stam -- Extremes and decadal variations in the Baltic Sea wave conditions / Tarmo Soomere -- Runup of long irregular waves on plane beach / Ira Didenkulova, Efim Pelinovsky and Anna Sergeeva -- Numerical study for run-up of breaking waves of different polarities on a sloping beach / Artem Rodin, Ira Didenkulova and Efim Pelinovsky -- Tsunami waves generated by cliff collapse: comparison between experiments and triphasic simulations / S. Viroulet, A. Sauret, O. Kimmo…