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What Causes Giant Rogue Waves?

The Joy of Why

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The Multi-Distance Mechanism of Rolling Waves

If the waves were unidirectional all more or less moving in one direction, you claim there should be some multi-directional mechanism. We have evidence to suggest that maybe there was indeed what we call crossing behavior going on. And somehow this upward behavior causes the wave to actually become steeper than it would be. Otherwise, it would have sort of fallen over, but now it's become steeper and taller.

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