Wave spectral shapes in the coastal waters based on measured data off Karwar on the western coast of India

Nair, M. Anjali; Kumar, V. Sanil

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/os-13-365-2017

Articles | Volume 13, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/os-13-365-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/os-13-365-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 3

Technical note

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03 May 2017

Technical note |

| 03 May 2017

Wave spectral shapes in the coastal waters based on measured data off Karwar on the western coast of India

M. Anjali Nair and V. Sanil Kumar

Data sets

The NCEP/NCAR 40-year reanalysis project E. Kalnay, M. Kanamitsu, R. Kistler, W. Collins, D. Deaven, L. Gandin, M. Iredell, S. Saha, G. White, J. Woollen, and Y. Zhu http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0477(1996)077<0437:TNYRP>2.0.CO;2

Short summary

The information on wave spectral shapes that is required for designing marine structures is presented based on wave data collected from January 2011 to December 2015 in the coastal waters of the eastern Arabian Sea. The variations in the high-frequency tail of the wave spectrum in different months are presented. The slope of the high-frequency tail of the monthly average wave spectra is high during the Indian summer monsoon period (June–September) compared to other months.