Open AccessCONSECUTIVE HIGH WAVES IN COASTAL WATERS
Author(s) -
Winfried Siefert
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
proceedings of conference on coastal engineering/proceedings of ... conference on coastal engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2156-1028
pISSN - 0589-087X
DOI - 10.9753/icce.v15.10
Subject(s) - estuary , oceanography , breaking wave , geology , environmental science , geography , physics , wave propagation , optics
The problem of statistics of numbers of consecutive high waves has not yet been treated in detail. Some numerical results (Goda, 1970) and evaluations of prototype data in water depths of 100 m (Rye, 1975) and 40 m (Wilson and Baird, 1973) respectively were published. Data from measurements in nearshore coastal waters, with unbroken, breaking and broken waves, obtained in the Elbe estuary, are treated in this paper.