A. V. Garmashov1,2, Yu. N. Toloknov1, A. I. Korovushkin1
1 Marine Hydrophysical Institute of RAS, Sevastopol, Russia
2 Sevastopol Branch of the N.N. Zubov State Oceanographic Institute, Sevastopol, Russia
Abstract
The long-term monitoring of wind waves was carried out in 1995 – 2002 on а fixed offshore gas production platform located in the northwest Black Sea. As a result of the analysis of more than 18000 wave records reliable statistical parameters of wind waves, describing the wave regime in the northwest Black Sea in 1995 – 2002, were obtained. It was found that the maximum wave height in summer reached 4,8 m, and in the winter – 8,76 m. Maximum wave height during 1-hour observation in the vast majority of cases exceeds 1,9 times the significant wave height.
Keywords
wind wave, wave heights, wave period, monitoring, measurements, Karkinitsky Bay, Black Sea