The One from Nowhere
The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong
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Why Don't More Ships Report Rogue Waves?
Peregrine solitons are necessarily short-lived and must break or disperse after reaching a critical height. Other nonlinear models suggest that more prodigious rogue waves might form stochastically from smaller waves which randomly merge together. Or maybe the shape of the sea floor can funnel several waves into the same place, sometimes, and combine into a monster. Maybe possibly all of these things happen sometimes, and there are multiple ways for rogue waves to propagate.
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