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The sharp increase of activity in the North Sea in recent years has led to a need for better long-term extreme wave statistics to assist in the design of off-shore structures. In view of the necessarily long period required to gather a valid statistical base of observations and the geographical extent of the area of interest, a numerical model offers the only solution. For this reason the NORSWAM model has been developed to calculate wave conditions from a retrospective analysis of the windfield for a selected number of severe storms over the past 10 years.
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Weare, T.J., Worthington, B. (1978). A Numerical Model Hindcast of Severe Wave Conditions for the North Sea. In: Favre, A., Hasselmann, K. (eds) Turbulent Fluxes Through the Sea Surface, Wave Dynamics, and Prediction. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-9806-9_40
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