Open AccessWIND AND MAXIMUM WAVE HEIGHT
Author(s) -
Paul A. Gills
Publication year - 1954
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.v5.30
Subject(s) - wind speed , typhoon , meteorology , nautical mile , beaufort scale , maximum sustained wind , wave height , wind gradient , environmental science , wind direction , wind wave , significant wave height , atmospheric sciences , geology , climatology , geography , oceanography
The height of waves depends on the strength of the wind it is necessary to know the maximum wind speed in order to know the wave pattern. The data on winds are given by scale (Beaufort's scale), by speed (in nautical miles, or kilometers per hour and meters per second, and the maximum wind speed, typhoons excluded, seems to be 110 miles (nautical). In typhoons the wind speed exceeds these values very much; on the other hand, in the mid-Atlantic zone between the United States and Europe, there are often speeds of 55 miles per hour but greater speeds are exceptional. The experiments on the pressure due to the wind against a body give results which confirm the usual rules of calculations as used in public works, bridges, etc.