Climate and extrema of ocean waves in the East China Sea |
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| Authors: | Hailun He Jinbao Song Yefei Bai Yao Xu Juanjuan Wang Fan Bi |
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| Institution: | 1.State Key Laboratory of Satellite Ocean Environment Dynamics, Second Institute of Oceanography,State Oceanic Administration,Hangzhou,China;2.Ocean College,Zhejiang University,Zhoushan,China;3.Department of Ocean and Resources Engineering,University of Hawaii at Manoa,Honolulu,USA;4.School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences,Nanjing University,Nanjing,China;5.National Marine Environment Forecasting Center,Beijing,China;6.North China Sea Marine Forecasting Center of State Oceanic Administration,Qingdao,China;7.Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Marine Ecological Environment and Disaster Prevention and Mitigation,Qingdao,China |
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| Abstract: | Wave climate plays an important role in the air-sea interaction over marginal seas. Extreme wave height provides fundamental information for various ocean engineering practices, such as hazard mitigation, coastal structure design, and risk assessment. In this paper, we implement a third generation wave model and conduct a high-resolution wave hindcast over the East China Sea to reconstruct a 15-year wave field from 1988 to 2002 for derivation of monthly mean wave parameters and analysis of extreme wave conditions. The numerical results of the wave field are validated through comparison with satellite altimetry measurements, low-resolution reanalysis, and the ocean wave buoy record. The monthly averaged wave height and wave period show seasonal variation and refined spatial patterns of surface waves in the East China Sea. The climatological significant wave height and mean wave period decrease from the open ocean in the southeast toward the continental area in the northwest, with the pattern generally following the bathymetry. Extreme analysis on the significant wave height at the buoy station indicates the hindcast data underestimate the extreme values relative to the observations. The spatial pattern of extreme wave height shows single peak emerges at the southwest of Ryukyu Island although a wind forcing with multi-core structure at the extreme is applied. |
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