Joint Wind Wave Height-Frequency-Direction Statistics at Two Disparate Sites.
Abstract
Joint probability functions associating wind wave characteristics height, spectral peak frequency, and mean wave direction at the peak frequency are estimated based on observations at two sites with distinctively different wave climates. One of the data sources is a directional wave gauge in approximately 8-m water depth 900 m offshore of the U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory Field Research Facility on the northern Outer Banks of North Carolin& The other data source is a directional wave gauge mounted on the Texaco Oil Company production facility known as Harvest Platform located in about 200 m of water approximately 20 km west of Point Conception, California The objective is to provide a simple three-parameter statistical characterization of these two sites so that meaningful combinations of these parameters can be used with conventional coastal engineering analysis tools. In addition to three-parameter joint statistics, marginal distributions with wave height-frequency, and joint height-direction are also presented.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1998
- Accession Number
- ADA345315
Entities
People
- Charles E. Long