Open AccessPARAMETRIC REPRESENTATION OF A WIND-WAVE FIELD
Author(s) -
Henrik Rye,
Roald Svee
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.v15.11
Subject(s) - rayleigh distribution , parametric statistics , computation , field (mathematics) , representation (politics) , surface wave , stokes wave , rayleigh wave , distribution (mathematics) , rayleigh scattering , physics , acoustics , computational physics , mathematics , wave propagation , mathematical analysis , optics , breaking wave , algorithm , statistics , law , pure mathematics , politics , political science
The applicability of various spectral shape parameters is discussed. The wave .height distribution from 60 actual wave recordings is computed and compared to the Rayleigh distribution. The behaviour of various wave period parameters is discussed. Based on results from field data as well as numerical computations, it is concluded that some of the spectral wave parameters frequently used today may not be suitable for characterizing the wave field.