The wave spectrum in archipelagos

Björkqvist, Jan-Victor; Pettersson, Heidi; Kahma, Kimmo K.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/os-15-1469-2019

Articles | Volume 15, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/os-15-1469-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/os-15-1469-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 6

Research article

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13 Nov 2019

Research article |

| 13 Nov 2019

The wave spectrum in archipelagos

Jan-Victor Björkqvist, Heidi Pettersson, and Kimmo K. Kahma

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RC1: 'Review of paper', Anonymous Referee #1, 01 Aug 2019
- AC1: 'Response to Reviewer #1', Jan-Victor Björkqvist, 12 Sep 2019
RC2: 'Review comments to "The wave spectrum in archipelagos"', Anonymous Referee #2, 08 Aug 2019
- AC2: 'Response to Reviewer #2', Jan-Victor Björkqvist, 12 Sep 2019

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AR by Jan-Victor Björkqvist on behalf of the Authors (12 Sep 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (09 Oct 2019) by Judith Wolf

AR by Jan-Victor Björkqvist on behalf of the Authors (11 Oct 2019) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

In this paper we present wave buoy measurements from the Finnish archipelago. The properties of the waves inside the archipelago differed from waves in the open sea because of the sheltering effect of the islands. In the archipelago the highest single wave was, on average, only 1.58 times the significant wave height, which is lower than what is predicted by previous research. A more robust way to calculate the wave frequency in the complex archipelago conditions was proposed.