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The effect of dominant wind patterns in Adriatic to the long-term extreme significant wave heights

The extreme significant wave heights (SWHs) prediction often neglects directionality. Based on 24 years of wind and wave data, the study considers sea states generated by different wind patterns and their potential influence on long- term predictions. Yearly extreme SWHs are extracted considering all directions together and separately. The extreme value distributions are fitted using the Annual Extreme Method. Long- term extreme values of SWHs are calculated for the directional distributions. Results are compared to ones neglecting the wave directionality effect.

Hindcast database, Long-term extremes, Significant wave heights, Wave directionality

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