Wave climate in the Arkona Basin, the Baltic Sea

Soomere, T.; Weisse, R.; Behrens, A.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/os-8-287-2012

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Wave climate in the Arkona Basin, the Baltic Sea

T. Soomere, R. Weisse, and A. Behrens

T. Soomere

Institute of Cybernetics at Tallinn University of Technology, Akadeemia tee 21, 12618 Tallinn, Estonia

Estonian Academy of Sciences, Kohtu 6, 10130 Tallinn, Estonia

R. Weisse

Institute of Coastal Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Max-Planck-Strasse 1, Geesthacht, Germany

A. Behrens

Institute of Coastal Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Max-Planck-Strasse 1, Geesthacht, Germany

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Depth range: Surface | Approach: In situ Observations | Geographical range: Baltic Sea | Phenomena: Surface Waves

The wave spectrum in archipelagos

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

Ocean Sci., 15, 1469–1487, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-15-1469-2019,https://doi.org/10.5194/os-15-1469-2019, 2019

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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.

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