40 min listen
What Causes Giant Rogue Waves?
FromThe Joy of Why
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Length:
40 minutes
Released:
Jun 14, 2023
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Podcast episode
Description
Sailors have spun yarns for centuries about gigantic rogue waves that could suddenly come out of nowhere to capsize the ships of unwary mariners. Scientists didn’t believe them because the stories seemed at odds with everything else known about waves. Then cameras and other instruments began to capture undeniable proof of the existence of rogue waves. Ton van den Bremer, an expert in fluid mechanics, talks with Steven Strogatz about what science has learned about how rogue waves form, whether it’s possible to predict them and how the waves can be recreated in a lab.
Released:
Jun 14, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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