Waves in shallow water off west coast of India during the onset of summer monsoon

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Author	Kumar, V. Sanil Philip, C. Sajiv Nair, T. N. Balakrishnan
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	The wave growth characteristics during the onset of summer monsoon in a swell dominated open ocean at a location off the west coast of India at 14 m water depth are studied. 67% of the measured waves are due to the swells arriving from south and south-west and the balance was due to the seas from south-west to north-west. Wave age of the measured data indicates that the measured waves are young sea with presence of swells. Even when the wind speed re- duced to less than 3 m/s, significant wave height more than 2 m is present due to the swells in the Arabian Sea. The max- imum wave height increased from 2 to 8 m within 60 h. The mean wave directions at the high frequencies align with the westerly wind direction and gradually shift to south-westerly swell direction at low frequencies during the wave growth. The strong westerly winds present between longitude 72 and 72.5 at latitude 12.5 has created the high waves (Hm0 upto 5.65 m) during the measurement period.
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Ending Page	824
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DOI	10.5194/angeo-28-817-2010
Volume Number	28
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Language	English
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