Extreme waves at Filyos, southern Black Sea

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2011-01-01

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Bilyay, E.
Ozbahceci, B. O.
Yalçıner, Ahmet Cevdet

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A wave measurement project was carried out for a new port planned in Filyos, in the Western Black Sea region of Turkey. The measurement at a depth of 12.5 m lasted for a period of two years and 7949 records were obtained. During the analysis, it was noticed that there were 209 records in which H/H(s) ratio was higher than 2.0. These higher waves in a record are called extreme waves in this study. Although the purpose of wave measurement is not to investigate extreme waves, it is believed that studying these unexpected waves could be interesting. Therefore, detailed statistical and spectral analyses on the extreme waves were done for the records. The analyses results show that the distribution of surface profiles of the records containing extreme waves deviates from Gaussian distribution with the negative skewness changing between -0.01 and -0.4 and with the high kurtosis in the range of 3.1-4.2. Although the probability of occurrence of the extreme waves is over-predicted by the Rayleigh distribution, a higher ratio of Hs/eta(rms) indicates that the wave height distribution can be represented by Rayleigh. The average value of the slope of the frequency spectrum at the high frequency range is proportional to f(-9) which is much steeper than the typical wind-wave frequency power law, f(-4,-5). The directional spreading is measured with the parameter S(max) and it is in the range of 5-70 for the extreme wave records. The wave and current interaction was also investigated and it was found that in most cases, extreme waves occur when the wave and the current are almost aligned. Furthermore, it is observed that extreme waves appear within a group of high waves.

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General Earth and Planetary Sciences

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/45944

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NATURAL HAZARDS AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES

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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-11-659-2011

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E. Bilyay, B. O. Ozbahceci, and A. C. Yalçıner, “Extreme waves at Filyos, southern Black Sea,” NATURAL HAZARDS AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES, pp. 659–666, 2011, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/45944.