Wave Data Processing and Analysis Tools for Developing Wave Boundary Forcing for CMS-Wave and GenCade Numerical Models: Part 1

Abstract

This Coastal and Hydraulics Engineering Technical Note (CHETN) presents a collection of wave data processing and analysis tools for assimilating measured wave data into wave climatology statistics and representative data subsets. These representative data subsets can be applied to force the offshore boundary of numerical wave models and also provide general wave climatology analysis. This CHETN focuses on applications employing the numerical models CMS-Wave (Lin et al. 2008) and GenCade (Frey et al. 2012); however, the toolkit has been developed with substantial flexibility such that it can be readily modified for other models or analyses. The CHETN first describes the data processing tools and then presents an example application. The general work-flow process, specific inputs, execution steps, and resulting outputs are described through the example application.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2013
Accession Number
ADA586273

Entities

People

  • Kenneth J. Connell
  • Rusty Permenter

Organizations

  • Engineer Research and Development Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundaries
  • Climatology
  • Data Processing
  • Engineers
  • Environment
  • Frequency
  • Histograms
  • Information Processing
  • Joints
  • Models
  • Offshore
  • Permutations
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Shores
  • Statistics
  • Three Dimensional

Readers

  • Coastal and Marine Engineering/Sediment Transport/Hydraulic Engineering
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development