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Kharif, C., Pelinovsky, E., Slunyaev, A. (2009). Introduction. In: Rogue Waves in the Ocean. Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Mathematics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88419-4_1
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