• "Freak waves in random oceanic sea states", con  A.R. Osborne, M. Onorato and S. Bertone, Phys. Review Lett.,  86, 5831, 2001.
• "Occurrence of freak waves from envelope equations in random ocean wave simulations", con A.R. Osborne, M. Onorato and T. Damiani, in "Rogue Waves 2000", eds. M. Olagnon e G. Athanassoulis,Springer -Verlag , pp. 181-191,  2001 .
• “Extreme wave events in directional, random oceanic sea states", con A.R. Osborne and M. Onorato, Phys. Fluids.,14, l25, 2002.
•  "Freely decaying weak turbulence for sea surface gravity waves", con M. Onorato, A.R. Osborne, D. Resio, A. Pushkarev, V. Zakharov, C. Brandini, Phys. Rev. Lett., 89, n.14, 2002
•  "Landau damping and coherent structure in narrow banded 1+1 deep water gravity waves", con M. Onorato, A.R. Osborne, R. Fedele,  Phys. Rev. E, 046305, 67, 2003
•  “Instability of two quasi-monochromatic waves in shallow water”, con M. Onorato, D. Ambrosi e A.R. Osborne, Phys. Fluids 3, vol. 15, 3871, 2003
•  “Observation of strongly non-gaussian statistics for random sea surface gravity waves in wave flume experimentsr”, con M. Onorato, A.R. Osborne,L. Cavaleri, C. Brandini, C.T. Stansberg, Phys. Rev E, 70, 067302, 2004
•  “Modulational instability and non-gaussian statistics in experimental random water-wave trains”, con M. Onorato, A.R. Osborne, L. Cavaleri Physics of Fluids, 17, 078101-4 (2005)
•  “On the computation of the Benjamin-Feir Index“, con M. Onorato, A.R. Osborne, Nuovo Cimento C, DOI 10.1393/ncc/i2005- 10134-1, 2005
•  “Modulational Instability in crossing sea states: a possible mechanism for the formation of freak waves“, con M. Onorato, A.R. Osborne, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 014503, 2006
•  “Extreme waves, modulational instability and second order theory: wave flume experiments on irregular waves“, con . M. Onorato, A.R. Osborne, Cavaleri L., C. Brandini, Stansberg C.T., Eur. J. OF Mech. B-Fluids 25 (5): 586-601 , 2006
•  “On the relation between two numerical model methods for the computation of random surface gravity waves“, con M. Onorato, A.R. Osborne, Europ. J. Mech. B - Fluids 26(1), 43-48, doi: 10.1016/j.euromechflu.2006.05.001,2007
•  “On the extreme statistics of long crested deep water waves: theory and experiment“, con N. Mori, M. Onorato, P.A.E.M. Janssen, A.R. Osborne, J. Geophys. Res.. 112, C09011, doi 10.1029/2006JC004024, 2007.
•  “Statistical properties of mechanically generated surface gravity waves: a laboratory experiment in a 3D wave basin”, con Onorato M., Cavaleri L., Fouques S. Gramstad O., Janssen P.A.E.M., Monbaliu J., Osborne A.R., Pâkozdi C., Stansberg C.T., Toffoli A., Trulsen K.,; submitted to Jour. Fluid Mech., 2008 (JFM-08-S-0250)