Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Updated Deep Water Wave Heights, REU experiments

This is the set of updated deep water wave heights we used during the 2004 REU experiments. I used the offshore gage to get the wave height, removed the first few waves and the band-passed centered around the peak frequency. Then, using linear wave theory, extrapolated to deep water conditions:

Wave Case
T, s
H*
kh*
n*
Lo
Ho
Ho/Lo
35
2.7
0.52
1.38
0.67
11.38
0.57
0.050
36
4.0
0.59
0.82
0.83
24.98
0.63
0.025
37
5.0
0.51
0.63
0.89
39.03
0.51
0.013
38
6.0
0.50
0.52
0.92
56.21
0.47
0.008
39
8.0
0.44
0.38
0.95
99.92
0.37
0.004