October 2016

Estimation of extremes in the southern Arabian Gulf

Extreme all-direction wave conditions and joint probabilities of high waves and high water levels are derived at selected locations in the southern Arabian Gulf. The wave conditions are obtained using the spectral wave model SWAN with wind and offshore wave information procured from ocean weather, supplemented with local water level records. Wave transformations from offshore to nearshore and waves generated by local...

Author(s): Thomaskutty Varghese, Shailesh Nayak and Gangadhara Bhat