Wave-current and wind climate in the remote foreshore of a non-tidal sea in view of field investigations.

ABSTRACT: The paper presents results of around 14-month long field survey monitoring wave-current and wind parameters at a remote foreshore location representative of the south Baltic Sea. Water surface elevations and superficial flow velocities were measured using a wave-current buoy moored at a depth of 18 m, about 2.8 km from the shoreline, while wind data were collected with an anemometer mounted on a nearby land mast and then recalculated to obtain the wind velocity over the sea. The analysis shows that the predominating direction of wave propagation is from W to E while the wind-driven currents are mostly directed from WSW to ENE. The extreme wave heights amounted to H_s = 4.36 m and H_max = 7.33 m while the maximum measured superficial flow velocity amounted to u_meas<

SUBMITTER: Stella-Bogusz M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12280131 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature