A new tool Wave Forecast Tool (WAVEFORT) for predicting wave condition
during extreme events in coastal areas and its validations: A new
perspective
Abstract
Waves are more responsive to the wind blowing over the surface of the
water. While wind moving over the water surface imparts its kinetic
energy to the underlying water body due to friction and drag force. In
this present study introducing new tool for wave forecast in coastal
areas during extreme events, it is accurately predicting wave heights by
giving distance of the extreme event and wind speed as input to this.
This new tool is definitely most helpful for coastal areas for
Maintenance of harbours, ship-routing, offshore platforms, coastal
livelihood, coastal processes and many more marine engineering
applications. This is successfully tested for coastal area of India and
giving validation results for the accuracy of the tool. These WAVEFORT
tool predicted wave heights are compared with the real time measured
in-situ observations of shallow water Directional Wave Rider Buoy (DWRB)
data off coastal area of India in 15m depth. Even in high wave
conditions also this tool predicted wave accurately with correlation
coefficient value of 0.95 tells the accuracy of the tool. The complete
validation results of the WAVEFORT tool are discussed on this present
study. KEY WORDS: Wave model, Cyclone forecast and Coastal areas