today i listened to a seminar by Dr. A. R. Osborne, world expert on Rogue Ocean Waves, from the Universit di Torino, Istituto di Fisica Generale, TORINO Italy A short list of some if his publications can be found at: http://157.138.180.25/ivsla_slv/osborne.html he presented a figure of wave data from a North Sea oil platform. The rogue wave had a 27 meter height (crest to trough). this maybe the largest wave measurement of public record. perhaps waves as large as 38 meters have been observed. the nonlinear math associated with modeling rogue waves is heavy (for me anyway)... however, our physical understanding is still quite limited - in that one can not be certain what weather conditions produce the big ones. whatever the weather, i'd rather be in that Canadian e-church than experience such a rogue wave. bye bye bliven *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Oct 06 1999 - 19:16:19 PDT
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