Performance of Several Wave Forecasting Systems for High Swell Conditions

Proceedings of the International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1462-1467

  Lefevre, Jean Michel ^a   Kortcheva, Anna ^b   Stefanescu, Simona ^c  

^a MÉTÉO FRANCE   (France)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METEOROLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (Bulgaria)

^c National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology   (Romania)

Author keywords

Data Assimilation; Ocean Wave; Sea State; Swell; Wave Modeling; Wave Physics parameterizations

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ATMOSPHERICS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DATA ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEA LEVEL; SPEED; STATISTICAL METHODS; SWELLING; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND EFFECTS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; SEA-STATE; WAVE FORECASTING; WAVE MODELING; WAVE PHYSICS PARAMETERIZATION; WAVE SWELL CONDITIONS;

WATER WAVE EFFECTS;

EID: 0942266608     PISSN: 10986189     EISSN: 15551792     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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