TY  - JOUR
AU  - Hsu, Shih-Ang (S.A.)
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/06/20
TI  - Wave Age and Steepness Relation in Growing Wind Seas: A Case Study during Hurricane Matthew in 2016
JO  - Advances in Environmental and Engineering Research
SP  - 037
VL  - 04
IS  - 02
AB  - For wind-wave interaction studies, from the literature, two criteria for the wind sea are used: one is the wave age and the other wave steepness. Analysis of pertinent datasets from a data buoy near the passage of Hurricane Matthew in 2016 indicates that   = -15   + 1.3. Here  is the wave age and  is the wave steepness, where Cp is the phase speed of the peak wave, U10 is the wind speed at 10 m, Hs is the significant wave height, and Lp is the peak or dominant wave length. It is found that 87% of the variation between wave age and wave steepness can be explained by this relation. Application of this relation to estimate U10 and friction velocity from wave parameters are also presented for practical environmental and engineering use.
SN  - 2766-6190
UR  - https://doi.org/10.21926/aeer.2302037
DO  - 10.21926/aeer.2302037
ID  - Hsu2023
ER  -