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Characteristics of waves off Goa, west coast of India

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Title Characteristics of waves off Goa, west coast of India
 
Creator SanilKumar, V.
AshokKumar, K.
Anand, N.M.
 
Subject wave measurement
wave height
wave period
rayleigh waves
swell
 
Description Directional wave measurements were carried out using Datawell directional waverider buoy off Goa along west coast of India during the south west monsoon period in 1996 and the results are presented. Theoretical joint distribution of wave height and period was compared with that of observed. The maximum wave height was found to be 1.6 times the significant wave height with wave heights following the Rayleigh distribution. The highest waves were found to occur with intermediate periods. The measured significant wave heights show that the contribution from the swells were predominant than from the seas and the swell direction was from 230 degrees to 270 degrees . The unidirectional spectrum showed that it can be satisfactorily represented by Scott-Wiegel spectra for this location with an average correlation coefficient of 0.9 with better representation of peak by Scott-Wiegel spectra
 
Date 2009-01-09T09:15:27Z
2009-01-09T09:15:27Z
2000
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Journal of Coastal Research, Vol.16; 782-789p.
http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/1700
 
Language en
 
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Publisher Coastal Research Foundation