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Book review: Extreme ocean waves

Pure and Applied Geophysics
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-017-1486-1

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“Extreme Ocean Waves”, edited by E. Pelinovsky and C. Kharif, second edition, Springer International Publishing, 2016; ISBN: 978-3-319-21574-7, ISBN (eBook): 978-3-319-21575-4

The second edition of “Extreme Ocean Waves” published by Springer is an update of a collection of 12 papers edited by Efim Pelinovsky and Christian Kharif following the April 2007 meeting of the General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union. In this edition, three new papers have been added and three more have been substantially revised. Color figures are now included, which greatly aids in reading several of the papers, and is especially helpful in visualizing graphs as in the paper on symbolic computation of nonlinear wave resonance (Tobisch et al.). A note on terminology: extreme waves in this volume broadly encompass different types of waves, including deep-water and shallow-water rogue waves (which are alternatively termed freak waves), and internal waves. One new paper on tsunamis (Viroulet et al.) is now included in the second edition of this volume. Throughout the book, the reader will find a combination of laboratory, theoretical, and statistical/empirical treatment necessary for the complete examination of this subject. In the Introduction, the editors underscore the importance of studying extreme waves, documenting a dramatic instance of damaging extreme waves that recently occurred in 2014.

Publication type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Title Book review: Extreme ocean waves
Series title Pure and Applied Geophysics
DOI 10.1007/s00024-017-1486-1
Volume 174
Issue 3
Year Published 2017
Language English
Publisher Springer
Contributing office(s) Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
Description 1 p.
First page 1519
Last page 1519
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