7TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON
WAVE HINDCASTING AND FORECASTING PREPRINTS

 

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

SESSION A: CLIMATE STUDIES - LARGE SCALE

SESSION B: WAVE CLIMATE TREND AND PREDICTION

SESSION C: WAVE CLIMATE STUDIES - REGIONAL

SESSION D: DESIGN WAVE ESTIMATION

SESSION E: WAVE MODELS AND MODEL EVALUATION

SESSION F: ROGUE WAVES AND EXTREME CREST HEIGHTS

SESSION G: WAVE THEORY I

SESSION H: WAVE THEORY II

SESSION I: TROPICAL CYCLONE PREDICTION

SESSION J: SHALLOW MODEL FORMULATION I

SESSION K: SHALLOW MODEL FORMULATION II

SESSION L: OPERATIONAL FORECASTING

POSTERS

All papers available in Adobe PDF Format


ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The organizers are indebted to many people who provided valuable assistance in planning of this workshop. We would especially like to thank the sponsors: the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, the Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center, and the Meteorological Service of Canada. The committee would also like to thank those who submitted papers and posters for the workshop program, and those who served as chairmen for various sessions. Special thanks are due to Maria Carney and Eileen Jeffers who handled most of the administrative and logistics details for the Workshop, and also assembled and produced the camera-ready copy of the Preprints.

Funding for this Workshop was provided, in part, by the Canadian federal Program of Energy Research and Development (PERD).


V.R. Swail, Chairman, Workshop Organizing Committee.


SESSION A: CLIMATE STUDIES - LARGE SCALE

A.1 Climatological Assessment of Reanalysis Ocean Data; S. Caires, A. Sterl, J.-R.. Bidlot, N. Graham and V. Swail

A.2 Swell Propagation and Nearshore Wave Climate; Douglas Scott, Donald Resio and Cristobal Pantoja

A.3 Global -Scale Wave Observations From Voluntary Observing Ships:
Assessment Of Reliability And Potentialities For Global And Offshore Region Studies
; Sergey K. Gulev, Vika Grigorieva, Andreas Sterl, and David Woolf


SESSION B: WAVE CLIMATE TREND AND PREDICTION

B.1 The Wave Climate of the North Atlantic - Past, Present and Future; Val R. Swail, Xiaolan L. Wang and Andrew Cox

B.2 51-Year Wave Hindcast and Analysis of Wave Height Climate Trend on the Northwestern Pacific Ocean; Masataka Yamaguchi and Yoshio Hatada

B.3 Intensification of North Pacific Winter Cyclones, 1948-98: Impacts on California Wave Climate; Nicholas E. Graham, R. Rea Strange, Henry F. Diaz

B.4 A stochastic Weather Generator to Estimate the Recent and Future Wave Climate at the German North Sea Coast; Arnt Pfizenmayer


SESSION C: WAVE CLIMATE STUDIES - REGIONAL

C.1 Wave Climate Study of the Caribbean Sea; M. Calverley D.Szabo, V. J. Cardone, E.A.Orelup and M.J. Parsons

C.2 Directional Characteristics of the 1990-1999 Wave Information Studies Gulf of Mexico Hindcast; Barbara A. Tracy

C.3 A 40-year high-resolution wind and wave hindcast for the Southern North Sea; Ralf Weisse, Heinz Ghnther and Frauke Feser *

C.4 Challenges to Wave Hindcasting in the Caspian Sea; C. Graham, V. J. Cardone, E. A. Ceccacci, M. J. Parsons, C. Cooper and J. Stear


SESSION D: DESIGN WAVE ESTIMATION

D.1 Derivation of a Design Wave from Joint Buoy, Satellite and Hindcast Data Sources; S. VanIseghem

D.2 Measured Tropical Cyclone Seas; S. J. Buchan, S. M. Tron and A. J. Lemm

D.3 Effects of Distributions and Fitting Techniques on Extreme Value Analysis of Modelled Wave Heights; W. D. Hogg and V. R. Swail

D.4 Effects of Sampling Rate on Extreme Value Analysis of Wave Height; Gene Berek


SESSION E: WAVE MODELS AND MODEL EVALUATION

E.1 WAM Performance in the Gulf of Mexico with COAMPS Wind; Y. Larry Hsu, W. Erick Rogers and James D. Dykes

E.2 SWAN Evaluation in Northern Gulf of Mexico; James D. Dykes, Y. Larry Hsu and W. Erick Rogers

E.3 Comparison of the Performances of Three of the State-of-the-Art Ocean Wave Models in Extreme Storm Cases; Roop Lalbeharry

E.4 A Fine-Resolution Operational Wave Model System for the NW Atlantic; Bechara Toulany, Will Perrie, Peter C. Smith, and Baoshu Yin

E.5 The 2002 Release of WAVEWATCH III; Hendrik L. Tolman

E.6 Wave-Atmosphere-Ocean Modelling of Recent Storms; W. Perrie, W. Zhang, Z. Long, W. Li and B. Toulany

E.7 Coupling GLERL with RAMS to Study Surface Wind Wave Effects on Air-Sea Fluxes in Chesapeake Bay; Weiqi Lin, Lawrence P. Sanford, Jeff McQueen, Steven E. Suttles and Paul A. Hwang

E.8 A Method To Predict Wave Conditions In Island Environment; E. Rusu, J. P. Pinto, R. Silva and C. Ventura Soares


SESSION F: ROGUE WAVES AND EXTREME CREST HEIGHTS

F.1 Singular Waves, Propagation and Prognosis; H. Gunther and W. Rosenthal


F.2 Investigating Conditions for Rogue Wave Events using a Global Spectral Wave Model; Jim Gunson and Anne Karin Magnussen *

F.3 Wave Focusing on Deep Water - Bandwidth, Spreading and Non-Linearity; Paul H. Taylor and Richard H. Gibbs

F.4 The Exceedence Probability of Wave Crests Calculated by the Spectral Response Surface Method; R. Gibson, P. Tromans, and C. Swan

F.5 Harmonic Distortion in Storm Waves and Consequences for Extreme Crest Heights; M. A. Donelan and A. K. Magnusson

F.6 On The Prediction of Extreme Wave Crest Heights; Sverre Haver


SESSION G: WAVE THEORY I

G.1 Theoretical Interpretation of Fetch Limited Wind-Driven Sea Observations; V. E. Zakharov

G.2 Direct and Inverse Cascade of Energy, Momentum, and Wave Action in Wind--Driven Sea; S. Badulin, A. Pushkarev, D. Resio, and V. Zakharov

G.3 The Momentum Flux Balance at the Sea Surface; Donald Resio and Charles Long

G.4 A Comparison of the Energy Flux Computation of Shoaling Waves using Hilbert and Wavelet Spectral Analysis Techniques; Paul A. Hwang, James M. Kaihatu and David W. Wang


SESSION H: WAVE THEORY II

H.1 On the Prediction of the Fetch Relations and Dissipation Laws Based on Dual Evolution Equations for Non-Linear , Non-Conservative Wave Systems; Marshall P. Tulin

H.2 The Effects of Swell and Wave Steepness on Wave Growth and Depth-Induced Wave Breaking; N. Booij and L. H. Holthuijsen

H.3 Numerical Simulation of Weak Turbulent Kolmogorov Spectrum in Water Surface Waves; Igor Lavrenov, Don Resio and Vladimir Zakharov

H.4 Using Field Buoy Data to Study Asymmetrical Wave-Wave Interactions in Horse-Shoe Pattern; Ray-Qing Lin and Lihwa Lin


SESSION I: TROPICAL CYCLONE PREDICTION

I.1 Real-Time Forecasting of Winds, Waves and Surge in Tropical Cyclones; Hans C. Graber

I.2 Variability of Hurricane Wind and Wave Predictions due to Variations in Track and Intensity Projections; Hans C. Graber, Robert E. Jensen, Vincent J. Cardone, Andrew Cox, John L. Guiney, Mark D. Powell and Peter Black


SESSION J: SHALLOW MODEL FORMULATION I

J.1 On the Analysis of Dispersion Relation of Spatially Shoaling Waves; David W. Wang, James M. Kaihatu and Paul Hwang

J.2 Coastal Wave Modelling Validation Using New Field Techniques; Carlos Ventura Soares , Eugen Rusu , Luís Q. Santos ,António Pires Silva , Oleg Makarynskyy

J.3 Incident Boundary Conditions For Wave Transformation; Jane McKee Smith and Mark B. Gravens

J.4 Model Predictions and Sensitivity Analysis of Nearshore Processes over Complex Bathymetry; James M. Kaihatu and William C. O'Reilly

J.5 The Impact of Variable Depth and Currents on Wave Development; Heinz Günther, Gerhard Gayer and Wolfgang Rosenthal


SESSION K: SHALLOW MODEL FORMULATION II

K.1 The Impact of Radiation Stress in a Coupled Wave-Tide-Surge Model; Yin Baoshu, Will Perrie, HouYijun, Lin Xiang and Cheng Minghua

K.2 The Application of a Coupled Wind, Water Level and Wave Model in a Warning System Against Flooding; Elizabeth (Ellen) J. Claessens, Johannes (Hans) P. de Waal, Hans C. van Twuiver and Marcel Bottema

K.3 Wave Measurements using Upward Looking Sonars in Marginal and Polar Sea Ice Regimes; David Fissel, John Marko and Humfrey Melling

K.4 Barotropic Waves Generated by Storms Moving Rapidly Over Shallow Water; Doug Mercer ,Jinyu Sheng, Richard Greatbatch, and Josko Bobanivic


SESSION L: OPERATIONAL FORECASTING

L.1 Quantifying the Role of Wind Field Accuracy in the U.S. Navy's Global Ocean Wave Nowcast/Forecast System; W. Erick Rogers and Paul A. Wittmann

L.2 The Distributed Integrated Ocean Prediction System (DIOPS); Dean Wakeham, Richard Allard, John Christiansen, Tom Taxon and Steve Williams

L.3 The Effect of Altimeter Sampling Patterns on Estimates of Wave Model Error Correlations; Diana J. M. Greenslade and Ian R. Young

L.4 20 Years of Operational Forecasting at Oceanweather; Andrew Cox and Vincent Cardone

L.5 A PC-Based Inshore Wave Forecast System; Nigel Tozer and Tyrone Parkinson

L.6 Wave Model Validation in the St. Lawrence River Estuary; Denis Jacob, Will Perrie, Bechara Toulany, François Saucier, Denis Lefaivre and Viateur Turcotte


POSTERS

P.1 Upper Limit on Wave Height in Dynamic Fetch; Ralph Bigio

P.2 North Atlantic Wave Climate Extremes and their Variability; E. A. Orelup, A. Niitsoo and V. J. Cardone

P.3 Case Studies of Tropical to Extra-Tropical Cyclone Conversion in the Western North Atlantic: Wind Field Kinematics and Wave Response; Andrew T. Cox, Brian T. Callahan, Vincent J. Cardone and Val R. Swail

P.4 Focused Waves onto a Plane Beach; A. C. Hunt, P. H. Taylor, A. G. L. Borthwick, P. K. Stansby and T. Feng

P.5 The Partition of Energy into Waves and Currents; W. Perrie, C. Tang, Y. Hu and B. M. DeTracy

P.6 Impact of Bottom Stress and Currents on Wave-Current Interactions; Yin Baoshu, Will Perrie, Hou Yijun, Lin Xiang and Cheng Minghua

P.7 Artificial Neural Networks in the Forecasting of Wave Parameters; Oleg Makarynskyy, António A. Pires-Silva, Dina Makarynska, Carlos Ventura-Soares

P.8 Methods to Reduce Biases Between Wind Speeds from Ships and Buoys; Bridget Thomas and Val Swail