MEETING REPORT | Rogue Waves—The Fourteenth 'Aha Huliko'a Hawaiian Winter Workshop

“It came from nowhere, snapping giant ships in two. No one believed the survivors … until now ” screamed the cover of New Scientist magazine on 30 June 2001, introducing an article entitled “Monsters of the Deep. ” The power and danger suggested by the term “rogue ” to describe extreme ocean waves add to the public fascination with these waves. They also presented important and challenging scientific problems and provided the topic Figure 1. An extreme wave, a so called “white wall, ” approaching a merchant vessel in the Bay of Biscay (from