CLIMATE AND EARTH
SYSTEM SCIENCES
Photo: UHH/Denstorf
7 July 2022
Photo: Jaya Kelvin
We are proud to announce the successful disputation of our SICSS member Ina Teutsch
Her dissertation “Rogue waves in the southern North Sea” was supervised by Prof. Dr. Corinna Schrum and Dr. Ralf Weisse.
Ina investigated wave measurement data from the southern North Sea, to find waves that are significantly larger than the surrounding waves, called rogue waves. She found that rogue waves were not as uncommon as one could expect. In deep water, they are mostly generated at random. In shallow water, however, nonlinear processes were found to play a guiding role in their formation. Here, the presence of solitons, which are waves that travel long distances without changing their shape or velocity, led to the formation of additional rogue waves.
Ina was a member of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon.
Ina’s future plans?
Ina is going to stay at Hereon and continues to investigate rogue waves for another two years.