Open AccessWAVE GROUP ANATOMY OF OCEAN WAVE SPECTRA
Author(s) -
Warren C. Thompson,
Amy Nelson,
Dean G. Sedivy
Publication year - 1984
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.v19.45
Subject(s) - swell , spectral line , wind wave , geology , significant wave height , seismology , physics , oceanography , astronomy
This paper inquires into the questions of how wave groups are related to the wave spectrum, and how they differ in sea versus swell. Some results are presented in the form of a wave group model for sea spectra and for swell spectra. The models were developed from statistical analysis of a large number of wave records and apply to deep water only.