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The project aims
at improving the understanding and the description of
the statistical and physical properties of individual
waves in shallow water records. Detailed records of wave
buoys in the Belgian coastal area will be analysed. The
analysis is focused on single extreme waves in wave records,
and not on the extreme analysis of integrated parameters
of the sea-state. These integrated parameters are still
needed in the search for possible indicators of increased
risk to encounter unusual waves, given the sea state.
Such indicators are of greatvalue in forecasting dangerous
sea conditions. This information is needed for short and
long term risk assesment in order to avoid and/or minimize
human, environmental and economic loss or damage in sea-affected
operations.
(1/01/2004 - 31/12/2007)
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