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2013 - Banff, Alberta, Canada
Program Details

Program Details

Sunday October 27

4:00 - 6:00 p.m. Workshop Registration Desk Open

6:00 - 9:00 p.m. Icebreaker

6:00 p.m. Session P: Poster Display

  • P1 - Developments in ensemble storm tide forecasting in Australia
    • Diana Greenslade, Michael Foley, Andrew Donaldson, Jason Brownlee, Jeff Kepert and John Bally
  • P2 - Global wave climate change from a community ensemble of wind-wave projections
    • Mark Hemer, Yalin Fan, Nobuhito Mori, Alvaro Semedo and Xiaolan Wang
  • P3 - A rare but damaging rogue wave from an unexpected direction
    • Johannes Gemmrich, Chris Garrett and Burkard Baschek
  • P4 - Evaluation of the Source and Travel-time of wave Energy reaching a Local Area (ESTELA)
  • P5 - ExWaCli : Extreme waves and climate change: Accounting for uncertainties in design of marine structures
    • Elzbieta M. Bitner-Gregersen, Lars Ingolf Eide, Magnar Reistad and Arne Bang Huseby
  • P6 - Operational wave forecasting at Environment Canada
    • N.B. Bernier, J. McLean, J.M. Belanger, M. Roch, S. Peel, R. Kumar, J.H Alves and H. Tolman
  • P7 - A wave setup estimation model for operational use
    • Nadao Kohno and Masatoshi Chikasawa
  • P8 - Simultaneous wind,wave and current measurements during a severe non-cyclonic squall event offshore Onslow Northwest Australia
    • S.R. Noreika and E.J. Foster
  • P9 - Validation of countermeasure system to the large swells on the east coast of Korea
    • T. Kim and J. Lee
  • P10 - Modelling North Atlantic noreasters with modern wave forecast models
    • Will Perrie, Bechara Toulany, Aron Roland, Mathieu Dutour-Sikiric, Changsheng Chen, Robert C. Beardsley, Jianhua Qi and Yongcun Hu
  • P11 - On the Development of an Operational SWAN model for the Black Sea
  • P12 - Characterizing the Nearshore Wave Climate on the West Coast of Vancouver Island
    • Bryson Robertson, Bradley Buckham and Clayton Hiles
  • P13 - The SWAN model - recent developments
  • P14 - Determining the approach direction of waves towards an FPSO
    • Alexander Hunt and Paul Taylor
  • P15 - Recent Advances in the NDBC Wave and Tsunami Measurement Programs
    • Richard H. Bouchard, Rodney Riley, Richard Dinoso, Karen Grissom, Walt McCall, George Mungov and Thomas Ryan
  • P16 - Operational wave forecasting for weather sensitive operations in Broadhaven Bay Irish coast
    • Nina Winthur-Kaland
  • P17 - What is Hmo? Comparison of various measuring devices, validation in practice and discussion on wave height distribution
    • Patrick Dich Grode, Hans Fabricius Hansen, Henrik Kofoed-Hansen and Niels Jacob Tarp-Johansen
    • Presenter: Patrick Dich Grode Download Presentation
  • P18 - Impact of a warmer climate on the future global wind sea and swell climates
    • Alvaro Semedo, Ralf Weisse and Andreas Sterl
    • Presenter: Alvaro Semedo

Monday October 28

8:30 a.m. Welcome and Introduction

Session A: Wave Measurement - In Situ

Chair: Val Swail

  • 8:50 a.m. - A1 - Are wave measurements actually ground truth?
  • 9:10 a.m - A2
  • 9:30 a.m. - A3 - Intrisic variability in wave parameters and effect on wave statistics
    • Elzbieta Bitner-Gregersen and Anne Karin Magnusson
      Presenter: Elzbieta Bitner-Gregersen
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  • 9:50 a.m. - A4 - Extreme wave observations in deep ocean
    • Takuji Waseda, Keiji Kiyomatsu, Tomoya Nishida, Wataru Fujimoto and Masato Shinchi
      Presenter: Takuji Waseda
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  • 10:10 a.m. - A5 - Examining field measurements during the December 2012 storm in the North Sea

10:30 a.m. Break

Session B: Wave Measurement - Remote Sensing

Chair: Anne Karin Magnusson

11:50 a.m. Lunch

Session C: Forecasting Dangerous Sea States

Chair: Hendrik Tolman

  • 1:30 p.m. - C1 - Forecasting extreme wave events in moderate and high sea states
    • Anne Karin Magnusson and Jean Bidlot
      Presenter: Anne Karin Magnusson
  • 1:50 p.m. - C2 - An approach for tough navigation sea information
  • 2:10 p.m. - C3 - Freak Wave in Two Wave Systems
  • 2:30 p.m. - C4 - Incorporating breaking wave predictions in spectral wave forecast models
  • 2:50 p.m. - C5 - Predicting the wave breaking probability in deep to finite-depth waters
  • 3:30 p.m. - C6 - Tropical cyclone generated rogue waves
  • 3:50 p.m. - C7 - Dangerous hardly visible seas from an installation contractor perspective

3:10 p.m. Break

4:10 p.m. Discussion: Forecasting Dangerous Sea States Chair: Andrew Saulter

5:30 p.m. Sessions end for day

Tuesday October 29

Session D: Advances in Storm Surge Modelling

Chair: Kevin Horsburgh

  • 8:30 a.m. - D1 - Hurricane Sandy (2012) Waves,Surge,and Circulation: Synoptic Analysis and Validation Using the SWAN+ADCIRC coupled wave-circulation model
    • Joannes J. Westerink, M.E. Hope, A.B. Kennedy, H.J. Westerink, M.D. Powell, V.J. Cardone and A.T. Cox
      Presenter: Joannes J. Westerink
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  • 8:50 a.m. - D2 - Surrogate modeling for storm waves and surge forecasts
    • Jane McKee Smith, Jeffrey A. Melby, Alexandros A. Taflanidis and Andrew B. Kennedy
      Presenter: Jane McKee Smith
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  • 9:10 a.m. - D3 - Implications of Ice Cover on Storm Surge Dynamics in the Beaufort Sea
  • 9:30 a.m. - D4 - Ensemble prediction of storm surge for the city of Venice
  • 9:50 a.m. - D5 - The contribution of altimetry to storm surge modelling in the eSurge project

10:10 a.m. Break

Session E: Coastal Impacts and Inundation

Chair: Boram Lee

  • 10:30 a.m. - E1 - Tsunami inundation of complex coastal regions modeled in GPUSPH
    • Robert A. Dalrymple, Brian Lindberg, Alexis H‚rault, Giuseppe Bilotta and Eugenio Rustico
      Presenter: Robert A. Dalrymple
  • 10:50 a.m. - E2 - A statistical description on the wind-coherent responses of sea surface heights off the U.S. West Coast
  • 11:10 a.m. - E3 - A semi-empirical approach for extreme sea-level early warning forecasts along the Italian coasts
    • A. Bonaduce, N. Pinardi, G. Coppini, G.Nardone and F.Lalli
      Presenter: A. Bonaduce
  • 11:30 a.m. - E4 - The WMO Coastal Inundation Forecasting Demonstration Project (CIFDP)

11:50 p.m. Lunch

Session F: Risk

Chair: Don Resio

3:10 p.m. Break

Session G: Design

Chair: Kevin Ewans

5:10 p.m. Sessions end for day

Wednesday October 30

Session H: Operational Wave Forecasting

Chair: Jean Bidlot

10:10 a.m. Break

Session I: Operational Wave and Storm Surge Forecasting

Chair: Nadao Kohno

11:30 a.m. Lunch

Session J: Wave Modelling - Wave-wave Interactions

Chair: Mike Banner

3:10 p.m. Break and Poster Session

Session K: Wave Modelling - Nearshore

Chair: Gerbrant van Vledder

4:50 p.m. Sessions end for day

6:00 p.m. Reception

7:00 p.m. Banquet

Thursday October 31

Session L: Wave-Current Interactions

Chair:

9:50 a.m. Break

Session M: Wave Climate Trend and Variability

Chair: Oyvind Breivik

  • 10:10 a.m. - M1 - Linear trends of wind speed and wave height based on ERA-INTERIM at different forecast range - 1979-2011
    • Ole Johan Aarnes, Saleh Abdalla, Jean-Raymond Bidlot, Oyvind Breivik, Alvaro Semedo and Andreas Sterl
      Presenter: Ole Johan Aarnes
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  • 10:30 a.m. - M2 - Estimation of local monthly wave climate indices
    • P. Camus, F. J. Mendez, I.J. Losada, M. Menendez, A. Espejo, J. Perez, A. Rueda and Y.Guanche
      Presenter: P. Camus
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  • 10:50 a.m. - M3 - Exploring spectral wave climate variability using a weather-type approach
    • Antonio Espejo, Fernando J. Mendez, Inigo J. Losada and Paula Camus
      Presenter: Fernando J. Mendez
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  • 11:10 a.m. - M4 - A Bayesian Hierarchical Space-Time Model Applied to High-Resolution Hindcast Data of Signicant Wave Height
  • 11:30 a.m. - M5 - Marine storminess (1880-2012) from VOS: climate variability in wind wave extremes and geometry
  • 11:50 a.m. - M6 - Global Wave Climate Trend and Variability

12:10 p.m. Lunch

Session N: Wave Hindcasts

Chair: Andrew Cox

3:30 p.m. Break

Session O: Storm Surge Climate and Projections

Chair: Mark Hemer

4:30 p.m. Sessions end for the day

Friday November 1

Session Q: Ocean Wave Climate Projections - COWCLIP

Chair: Sergey Gulev

10:10 a.m. Break

Session R: Ocean Wave Climate Projections

Chair: Xiaolan Wang

11:50 p.m. Closing Remarks

12:15 p.m. Workshop Ends

1:30 p.m. COWCLIP meeting starts

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