Wave simulation in the outer Río de la Plata estuary: Evaluation of SWAN model

Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering

Volumn 134, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 299-305

  Dragani, W C ^a   Garavento, E ^a   Simionato, C G ^a   Nunez M N ^a   Martin, P ^b   Campos, M I ^c  

^a Centro de Investigacion del Mar y la Atmosfera   (Argentina)

^b Servicio de Hidrografia Naval   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Estuaries; Forecasting; Ocean waves; Parameters; Simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA LEVEL; WATER LEVELS;

COMPUTATIONAL DOMAIN; CONTINENTAL SHELF; CORRECTION COEFFICIENTS; DRAG FACTOR; ESTUARIES; FORECASTING; FUTURE APPLICATIONS; IN-SITU; IN-SITU DATA; LOW RESOLUTION; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; OCEAN WAVES; PARAMETERS; REALISTIC SIMULATIONS; SIMULATION; SWAN MODEL; WAV E CLIMATES; WAVE HEIGHTS; WAVE MODELING; WAVE PARAMETERS; WAVE SIMULATIONS; WIND SPEED;

EXPERIMENTS;

CONTINENTAL SHELF; DRAG; FORECASTING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEAN WAVE; WAVE CLIMATE; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE MODELING; WIND VELOCITY;

RIO DE LA PLATA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 50049110571     PISSN: 0733950X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-950X(2008)134:5(299)     Document Type: Article

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