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Sea breeze-induced wind sea growth in the central west coast of India.

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Title Sea breeze-induced wind sea growth in the central west coast of India.
 
Creator Aboobacker, V.M.
Seemanth, M.
Samiksha, S.V.
Sudheesh, K.
Kerkar, J.
Vethamony, P.
 
Subject sea breezes
winds
mathematical models
 
Description Fine resolution wind data is required in wave models to study the interaction between wind seas generated by coastal winds, and swells. In the present study, a mesoscale model, MM5, which is capable of reproducing fine details of sea breeze characteristics, has been used to simulate winds along the central west coast of India during pre-monsoon season, and these winds are used in the wave model. Our analysis shows that sea breeze induced wind seas are generated roughly around 210 km off Goa in the northwest direction, and grow progressively while propagating towards the coast. Relationships between wind speed and wind sea height have been derived, and they fairly explain the generation of wind seas by the sea breeze system. Since, the land breeze is weak and available fetch is very limited, the land breeze has no significant effect on wind sea generation from the northeast direction.
 
Date 2014-05-06T11:35:10Z
2014-05-06T11:35:10Z
2014
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Ocean Engineering, vol.84; 2014; 20–28.
http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/4530
 
Language en
 
Rights An edited version of this paper was published by Elsevier. Copyright [2014] Elsevier
 
Publisher Elsevier