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20132026
most citedThe excitation of rogue waves in a variable medium: an experimental study on the interaction of water waves and currents

71 citations · 159 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

nlin.PS2026

Nonlinear Reshaping of Gaussian Water Wave Packets

Zibo Zheng, Takuji Waseda, C. Martijn de Sterke +2

The propagation of narrowband wave packets is a classical problem with broad relevance across nonlinear wave physics. Within the framework of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation, so…

physics.geo-ph2026

OpenWaveLogger v2026 (OWL-v2026): an open source, low cost, easy to build, high performance logger for wave data measurements

Jean Rabault, Joey Voermans, Takuji Waseda +10

Ocean wave models are critical for weather and climate forecasting, and accurate in-situ wave observations are essential for validating and improving these models. Open-source, com…

physics.geo-ph2025

Observations of high-frequency spectral peaks from in-situ waves in ice data: evidence for nonlinear waves in ice triad interactions?

Jean Rabault, Joey Voermans, Takehiko Nose +16

The propagation of waves through the marginal ice zone (MIZ) and deeper into pack ice is a key phenomenon that influences the breakup and drift of sea ice. When waves in ice propag…

physics.ao-ph2024★ 1 cited

An OpenMetBuoy dataset of Marginal Ice Zone dynamics collected around Svalbard in 2022 and 2023

Jean Rabault, Catherine Taelman, Martina Idžanović +28

Sea ice is a key element of the global Earth system, with a major impact on global climate and regional weather. Unfortunately, accurate sea ice modeling is challenging due to the…

physics.ao-ph2024★ 3 cited

Buoy measurements of strong waves in ice amplitude modulation: a signature of complex physics governing waves in ice attenuation

J. Rabault, T. Halsne, A. Carrasco +25

The Marginal Ice Zone (MIZ) forms a critical transition region between the ocean and sea ice cover as it protects the close ice further in from the effect of the steepest and most…

physics.ao-ph2023

Observation of wave propagation over 1,000 km into Antarctica winter pack ice

Takehiko Nose, Tomotaka Katsuno, Takuji Waseda +4

A drifting wave-ice buoy, which was configured by mounting the OpenMetBuoy on an ad hoc floating platform that we named Medusa, was deployed at the Lützow-Holm Bay (LHB) marginal i…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 2 cited

An affordable and customizable wave buoy for the study of wave-ice interactions: design concept and results from field deployments

Tsubasa Kodaira, Tomotaka Katsuno, Takehiko Nose +5

In the polar regions, the interaction between waves and ice has a crucial impact on the seasonal change in the sea ice extent. However, our comprehension of this phenomenon is rest…

physics.geo-ph2023

Estimating sea ice properties from wave observations in sea ice

J. J. Voermans, J. Rabault, A. Marchenko +3

The Marginal Ice Zone is a highly dynamic region where the atmosphere, ocean, waves and sea ice meet. Waves play a fundamental role in this coupled system, but progress in our unde…

physics.ao-ph2023★ 2 cited

A comparison of an operational wave-ice model product and drifting wave buoy observation in the central Arctic Ocean: investigating the effect of sea ice forcing in thin ice cover

Takehiko Nose, Jean Rabault, Takuji Waseda +7

Two drifting wave buoys were deployed in the central Arctic Ocean, north of the Laptev Sea, where there are historically no wave observations available. An experimental wave buoy w…

physics.geo-ph2022★ 3 cited

A dataset of direct observations of sea ice drift and waves in ice

Jean Rabault, Malte Müller, Joey Voermans +25

Variability in sea ice conditions, combined with strong couplings to the atmosphere and the ocean, lead to a broad range of complex sea ice dynamics. More in-situ measurements are…

physics.flu-dyn2022

Phase convergence and crest enhancement of modulated wave trains

Hidetaka Houtani, Hiroshi Sawada, Takuji Waseda

The Akhmediev breather (AB) solution of the nonlinear Schrdinger equation (NLSE) shows that the maximum crest height of modulated wave trains reaches triple the initial amplitud…

physics.ao-ph2022★ 1 cited

Uncertainty in wave hindcasts in the North Atlantic Ocean

Tsubasa Kodaira, Kaushik Sasmal, Rei Miratsu +3

Accurate ocean surface wave knowledge is crucial for ship design. With the significant advancements of model physics and numerical resources, the recent numerical wave hindcast dat…

physics.ins-det2022

OpenMetBuoy-V2021: an easy-to-build, affordable, customizable, open source instrument for oceanographic measurements of drift and waves in sea ice and the open ocean

Jean Rabault, Takehiko Nose, Gaute Hope +17

There is a wide consensus within the polar science, meteorology, and oceanography communities that more in-situ observations of the ocean, atmosphere, and sea ice, are required to…

nlin.PS2020

Phase-suppressed hydrodynamics of solitons on constant-background plane wave

Amin Chabchoub, Takuji Waseda, Marco Klein +2

Soliton and breather solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLSE) are known to model localized structures in nonlinear dispersive media such as on the water surface. One…

physics.flu-dyn2020★ 18 cited

Fourier Amplitude Distribution and Intermittency in Mechanically Generated Surface Gravity Waves

Elmira Fadaeiazar, Justin Leontini, Miguel Onorato +3

We examine and discuss the spatial evolution of the statistical properties of mechanically generated surface gravity wave fields, initialised with unidirectional spectral energy di…

nlin.PS2018★ 32 cited

Directional Soliton and Breather Beams

Amin Chabchoub, Kento Mozumi, Norbert Hoffmann +7

Solitons and breathers are nonlinear modes that exist in a wide range of physical systems. They are fundamental solutions of a number of nonlinear wave evolution equations, includi…

physics.flu-dyn2018★ 17 cited

Wave turbulence and intermittency in directional sea states

Elmira Fadaeiazar, Alberto Alberello, Miguel Onorato +4

The evolution of surface gravity waves is driven by nonlinear interactions that trigger an energy cascade similarly to the one observed in hydrodynamic turbulence. This process, kn…

physics.ao-ph2016★ 9 cited

A High-Resolution, Wave and Current Resource Assessment of Japan: The Web GIS Dataset

Adrean Webb, Takuji Waseda, Wataru Fujimoto +6

The University of Tokyo and JAMSTEC have conducted state-of-the-art wave and current resource assessments to assist with generator site identification and construction in Japan. Th…

physics.flu-dyn2013★ 71 cited

The excitation of rogue waves in a variable medium: an experimental study on the interaction of water waves and currents

A. Toffoli, T. Waseda, H. Houtani +4

We show experimentally that a stable wave propagating into a region characterized by an opposite current may become modulationaly unstable. Experiments have been performed in two i…