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Guedes Soares, C. and Rusu, E. (2005) , “SWAN Hindcast in the Black Sea”, Proceedings of 5th International Symposium on Ocean Waves Measurement and Analysis (WAVES´05), 3-7 July, Madrid, Spain
A SWAN implementation for the Black Sea area is presented. The advantage of using the SWAN model, both for wave generation and transform, is mainly the simpler procedure of nesting into the initial domain of medium and high resolution areas for further coastal simulations. The reanalysis wind was provided by the project HIPOCAS. Comparisons with WAM (cycle 4) and with data from a buoy located in the North East of the Black Sea basin were also performed. There are two processes that govern the wave generation in SWAN. These are generation by wind and dissipation by whitecapping. Three methods are presently available into the model to account for these processes. The first two are based on the formulations of Komen and Janssen while the third is called the Cumulative Steepness Method. All these formulations were tested and their efficiency will be discussed. Finally some directions for increasing the accuracy of the model results all over the Black Sea as well as the possibility of using SWAN operationally for wave forecast in closed seas will be also pointed.
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