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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 47. Chapters: North Atlantic Current, Antarctic Circumpolar Current, Rogue wave, Gulf Stream, Ecosystem of the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, List of rogue waves, West Spitsbergen Current, East Greenland Current, Kuroshio Current, California Current, Friendly Floatees, Loop Current, Norwegian Current, Ocean current, Canary Current, Agulhas Current, Indian Monsoon Current, Benguela Current, Ocean dynamics, Leeuwin Current, Subsurface currents, Ocean gyre, Sverdrup balance, Labrador Current, Humboldt Current, Cromwell Current, Oyashio Current, Mozambique Current, South Pacific Gyre, Boundary current, East Australian Current, Lomonosov Current, West Greenland Current, Somali Current, Indonesian Throughflow, South Atlantic Gyre, Beaufort Gyre, North Pacific Gyre, Mann Eddy, South Equatorial Current, North Korea Cold Current, North Pacific Current, North Equatorial Current, Florida Current, Alaska Current, Azores Current, Equatorial Counter Current, Tasman Outflow, Brazil Current, Antilles Current, South Atlantic Current, East Madagascar Current, Mindanao Current, Subtropical Front, East Korea Warm Current, Portugal Current, Caribbean Current, Irminger Current, Davidson Current, Falkland Current, North Atlantic Gyre, Aleutian Current, Kamchatka Current, Warm core ring, Angola Current, Guinea Current, Indian Ocean Gyre, Cape Horn Current. Excerpt: Rogue waves (also known as freak waves, monster waves, killer waves, extreme waves, and abnormal waves) are relatively large and spontaneous ocean surface waves that occur far out in sea, and are a threat even to large ships and ocean liners. In oceanography, they are more precisely defined as waves whose height is more than twice the significant wave height (SWH), which is itself defined as the mean of the largest third of waves in a wave record. Therefore rogue waves are not necessarily th...
