Program Details

FINAL PROGRAM

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SESSION A: CLIMATE STUDIES - LARGE SCALE

• A1 Climatological Assessment of Reanalysis Ocean Data

  • S. Caires, A. Sterl, J.R. Bidlot, N. Graham and V. Swail

• A2 Swell Propagation and Nearshore Wave Climate

  • Douglas Scott, Donald Resio and Cristobal Pantoja

• A3 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

• B1 The Wave Climate of the North Atlantic - Past, Present and Future

  • Val R. Swail, Xiaolan L. Wang and Andrew Cox

• B2 51-Year Wave Hindcast and Analysis of Wave Height Climate Trend on the Northwestern Pacific Ocean

  • Masataka Yamaguchi and Yoshio Hatada

• B3 Intensification of North Pacific Winter Cyclones, 1948-98: Impacts on California Wave Climate

  • Nicholas E. Graham, R. Rea Strange, Henry F. Diaz

• B4 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

• C1 Wave Climate Study of the Caribbean Sea

  • M. Calverley D.Szabo, V. J. Cardone, E.A.Orelup and M.J. Parsons

• C2 Directional Characteristics of the 1990-1999 Wave Information Studies Gulf of Mexico Hindcast

  • Barbara A. Tracy

• C3 A 40-year high-resolution wind and wave hindcast for the Southern North Sea

  • Ralf Weisse, Heinz Ghnther and Frauke Feser

• C4 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

• D1 Derivation of a Design Wave from Joint Buoy, Satellite and Hindcast Data Sources

  • S. VanIseghem

• D2 Measured Tropical Cyclone Seas

  • S. J. Buchan, S. M. Tron and A. J. Lemm

• D3 Effects of Distributions and Fitting Techniques on Extreme Value Analysis of Modelled Wave Heights

  • W. D. Hogg and V. R. Swail

• D4 Effects of Sampling Rate on Extreme Value Analysis of Wave Height

  • Gene Berek

SESSION E: WAVE MODELS AND MODEL EVALUATION

• E1 WAM Performance in the Gulf of Mexico with COAMPS Wind

  • Y. Larry Hsu, W. Erick Rogers and James D. Dykes

• E2 SWAN Evaluation in Northern Gulf of Mexico

  • James D. Dykes, Y. Larry Hsu and W. Erick Rogers

• E3 Comparison of the Performances of Three of the State-of-the-Art Ocean Wave Models in Extreme Storm Cases

  • Roop Lalbeharry

• E4 A Fine-Resolution Operational Wave Model System for the NW Atlantic

  • Bechara Toulany, Will Perrie, Peter C. Smith, and Baoshu Yin

• E5 The 2002 Release of WAVEWATCH III

  • Hendrik L. Tolman

• E6 Wave-Atmosphere-Ocean Modelling of Recent Storms

  • W. Perrie, W. Zhang, Z. Long, W. Li and B. Toulany

• E7 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

• E8 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

• F1 Singular Waves, Propagation and Prognosis

  • H. Gunther and W. Rosenthal

• F2 Investigating Conditions for Rogue Wave Events using a Global Spectral Wave Model

  • Jim Gunson and Anne Karin Magnussen

• F3 Wave Focusing on Deep Water - Bandwidth, Spreading and Non-Linearity

  • Paul H. Taylor and Richard H. Gibbs

• F4 The Exceedence Probability of Wave Crests Calculated by the Spectral Response Surface Method

  • R. Gibson, P. Tromans, and C. Swan

• F5 Harmonic Distortion in Storm Waves and Consequences for Extreme Crest Heights

  • M. A. Donelan and A. K. Magnusson

• F6 On The Prediction of Extreme Wave Crest Heights

  • Sverre Haver

SESSION G: WAVE THEORY I

• G1 Theoretical Interpretation of Fetch Limited Wind-Driven Sea Observations

  • V. E. Zakharov

• G2 Direct and Inverse Cascade of Energy, Momentum, and Wave Action in Wind–Driven Sea

  • S. Badulin, A. Pushkarev, D. Resio, and V. Zakharov

• G3 The Momentum Flux Balance at the Sea Surface

  • Donald Resio and Charles Long

• G4 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

• H1 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

• H2 The Effects of Swell and Wave Steepness on Wave Growth and Depth-Induced Wave Breaking

  • N. Booij and L. H. Holthuijsen

• H3 Numerical Simulation of Weak Turbulent Kolmogorov Spectrum in Water Surface Waves

  • Igor Lavrenov, Don Resio and Vladimir Zakharov

• H4 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

• I1 Real-Time Forecasting of Winds, Waves and Surge in Tropical Cyclones

  • Hans C. Graber

• I2 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

• J1 On the Analysis of Dispersion Relation of Spatially Shoaling Waves

  • David W. Wang, James M. Kaihatu and Paul Hwang

• J2 Coastal Wave Modelling Validation Using New Field Techniques

  • Carlos Ventura Soares, Eugen Rusu, Luís Q. Santos, António Pires Silva, Oleg Makarynskyy

• J3 Incident Boundary Conditions For Wave Transformation

  • Jane McKee Smith and Mark B. Gravens

• J4 Model Predictions and Sensitivity Analysis of Nearshore Processes over Complex Bathymetry

  • James M. Kaihatu and William C. O’Reilly

• J5 The Impact of Variable Depth and Currents on Wave Development

  • Heinz Günther, Gerhard Gayer and Wolfgang Rosenthal

SESSION K: SHALLOW MODEL FORMULATION II

• K1 The Impact of Radiation Stress in a Coupled Wave-Tide-Surge Model

  • Yin Baoshu, Will Perrie, HouYijun, Lin Xiang and Cheng Minghua

• K2 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

• K3 Wave Measurements using Upward Looking Sonars in Marginal and Polar Sea Ice Regimes

  • David Fissel, John Marko and Humfrey Melling

• K4 Barotropic Waves Generated by Storms Moving Rapidly Over Shallow Water

  • Doug Mercer ,Jinyu Sheng, Richard Greatbatch, and Josko Bobanivic

SESSION L: OPERATIONAL FORECASTING

• L1 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

• L2 The Distributed Integrated Ocean Prediction System (DIOPS)

  • Dean Wakeham, Richard Allard, John Christiansen, Tom Taxon and Steve Williams

• L3 The Effect of Altimeter Sampling Patterns on Estimates of Wave Model Error Correlations

  • Diana J. M. Greenslade and Ian R. Young

• L4 20 Years of Operational Forecasting at Oceanweather

  • Andrew Cox and Vincent Cardone

• L5 A PC-Based Inshore Wave Forecast System

  • Nigel Tozer and Tyrone Parkinson

• L6 Wave Model Validation in the St. Lawrence River Estuary

  • Denis Jacob, Will Perrie, Bechara Toulany, François Saucier, Denis Lefaivre and Viateur Turcotte

POSTERS

• P1 Upper Limit on Wave Height in Dynamic Fetch

  • Ralph Bigio

• P2 North Atlantic Wave Climate Extremes and their Variability

  • E. A. Orelup, A. Niitsoo and V. J. Cardone

• P3 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

• P4 Focused Waves onto a Plane Beach

  • A. C. Hunt, P. H. Taylor, A. G. L. Borthwick, P. K. Stansby and T. Feng

• P5 The Partition of Energy into Waves and Currents

  • W. Perrie, C. Tang, Y. Hu and B. M. DeTracy

• P6 Impact of Bottom Stress and Currents on Wave-Current Interactions

  • Yin Baoshu, Will Perrie, Hou Yijun, Lin Xiang and Cheng Minghua

• P7 Artificial Neural Networks in the Forecasting of Wave Parameters

  • Oleg Makarynskyy, António A. Pires-Silva, Dina Makarynska, Carlos Ventura-Soares

• P8 Methods to Reduce Biases Between Wind Speeds from Ships and Buoys

  • Bridget Thomas and Val Swail