Effects of Sampling between Data of Significant Wave Height for Intensity and Duration of Severe Sea Storms
- 1 Natural Ocean Engineering Laboratory, Department of Civil Engineering, Energy, Environment and Materials, Mediterranea University, Reggio Calabria, Italy
- 2 Natural Ocean Engineering Laboratory, Department of Civil Engineering, Energy, Environment and Materials, Mediterranea University, Reggio Calabria, Italy
- 3 Natural Ocean Engineering Laboratory, Department of Civil Engineering, Energy, Environment and Materials, Mediterranea University, Reggio Calabria, Italy
- 4 Natural Ocean Engineering Laboratory, Department of Civil Engineering, Energy, Environment and Materials, Mediterranea University, Reggio Calabria, Italy
Abstract
The paper deals with the analysis of severe storms in the central Mediterranean Sea and in the US coasts of the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean. Firstly, we introduce a model for the representation of the sea storms by means of two parameters: the former is given by the maximum value of significant wave height in the actual storm and defines the storm intensity, the latter gives the storm duration. The analysis considers buoy data with different sampling Δ t between two consecu - tive records, which varies in the range 0.5 - 6 hours. The sensitivity analysis of the modelled sea storm with the varia - tion of Δ t shows as the structure of storms is strongly modified with large values of Δ t of order of 3 - 6 hours: both the intensity and the duration may change significantly. The results are of interest to investigate the extreme events in the storms obtained with WAve Model, starting from meteorological data, where the value of Δ t of 6 hours is widely ap plied. The conclusion is that structure of severe storms should be represented with continuous data, with Δ t = 0.5 hours; a good representation is also obtained with Δ t = 1 hour. The errors with increasing values of Δ t are investigated.
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