{"id":25257,"date":"2024-07-22T12:53:20","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T07:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=25257"},"modified":"2025-04-07T16:37:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T11:07:48","slug":"rogue-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/rogue-waves\/","title":{"rendered":"What are Rogue waves?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Rogue waves:\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>These are also known as <strong>Freak waves<\/strong> and are relatively rare, large and spontaneous <strong>ocean surface waves<\/strong> whose heights are larger than maximum wave height expected for a given sea state.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Formation:<\/strong> These are formed from the coincidental <strong>stacking of multiple wind-driven wave<\/strong> crests passing through a single point or arising from a combination of waves<\/li>\n<li>Rogue waves tower to heights greater than twice the size of nearby waves, and they may move in <strong>either the same direction<\/strong>, <strong>the opposite direction,<\/strong> or at oblique angles to the prevailing wind and wave motion.<\/li>\n<li>They have been <strong>observed all over the world <\/strong>ocean and their characteristics are studied in the Mediterranean sea, the Pacific, the Atlantic, and some parts of the Indian Ocean.<\/li>\n<li>They are very <strong>unpredictable<\/strong>, and often come <strong>unexpectedly from directions<\/strong> other than prevailing wind and waves.<\/li>\n<li>The generation of freak waves is not only restricted to the open ocean, but <strong>also observed in the near-shore area<\/strong>, where these sudden waves cause damage to coastal structures and danger for small fishing boats.<\/li>\n<li>They look like &#8220;walls of water.&#8221; They are often steep-sided with unusually deep troughs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Impacts:<\/strong> They may be <strong>hazardous to ships at sea<\/strong>, capable of capsizing a vessel or washing crew members off the deck and into the ocean, and they are powerful enough to damage oil-drilling platforms and lighthouses.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is an Ocean Current?<\/h3>\n<p>An ocean current is a continuous, directed flow of seawater within the Earth&#8217;s oceans. These currents are like rivers within the ocean, moving large volumes of water in specific patterns and directions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-law\/what-is-governors-immunity-under-article-361-set-to-be-reviewed-by-supreme-court-9467667\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">What are \u2018rogue waves\u2019 and how can AI help predict them?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rogue waves are also known as Freak waves and are relatively rare, large and spontaneous ocean surface waves whose heights are larger than maximum wave height expected for a given sea state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}