This isn’t particularly good news, but there are probably a lot more rogue waves out there than we think. Indeed, a new study by a group from the University of Melbourne, involving measuring actual storms on the Southern Ocean, says that rogue waves, the subjects of ancient mythology, seamen’s nightmares and artists’ imaginations, are much more common than scientists had believed. The new study, just published in the journal Physical Review Letters, was the work of a Melbourne team under professor Alessandro Toffoli. They measured waves on the Southern Ocean, the home of some of the fiercest storms on the…
A storm in the Southern Ocean by Alessandro Toffoli
