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Ann. Geophys., 22, 1839-1842, 2004
www.ann-geophys.net/22/1839/2004/
© European Geosciences Union 2004
Freak waves - more frequent than rare!
P. C. Liu1 and U. F. Pinho2
1NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
2Department of Ocean Engineering, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Abstract. Contrary to the widely held notion that considers the occurrence of freak
waves in the ocean as being rare, from an examination of five years of wave
measurements made in the South Atlantic Ocean, we found the occurrence of
freak waves is actually more frequent than rare.
Key words. Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics (waves
and tides) – Oceanography: physical (surface waves and
tides; air-sea interaction)
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