Hundred-year wave

Hundred-year wave

A hundred-year wave is a statistically projected water wave, the height of which, on average, is met or exceeded once in a hundred years for a given location. The likelihood of this wave height being attained at least once in the hundred-year period is 63%.cite book|last=Brooke|first=John|coauthors=Engineering Committee on Oceanic Resources Working Group on Wave Energy Conversion|title="Wave Energy Conversion"|publisher=Elsevier|date=2003|pages=p 170|isbn=0080442129|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=UGAXRwoLZY4C&pg=PA170&dq=%22hundred+year+wave%22&sig=ACfU3U1rgLoA2QatLY9vDgOTUzYemz84fQ|accessdate=2008-09-09] As a projection of the most extreme wave which can be expected to occur in a given body of water, the hundred-year wave is a factor commonly taken into consideration by designers of oil platforms and other offshore structures. [cite book
first=Y.
last=Goda
title=Random Seas and Design of Maritime Structures
year=2000
publisher=World Scientific
isbn=978 981 02 3256 6 pp. 421–422.] [cite book
title=Modeling Complex Engineering Structures
first=Robert E.
last=Melchers
coauthors=Hough, Richard
publisher=ASCE Publications
year=2007
isbn=0784408505 p. 188.] [Cite book
last = Holthuijsen
first = Leo H.
year = 2007
title = Waves in oceanic and coastal waters
publisher = Cambridge University Press
isbn = 0521860288
location = Cambridge Ch. 4.] Periods of time other than a hundred years may also be taken into account, resulting in, for instance, a fifty-year wave.cite book|last=Le Tirant|first=P.|coauthors=Jacques Meunier, Association de recherche en géotechnique marine (France)|others=Translated by Nissim Marshall|title="Anchoring of Floating Structures: Design Guides for Offshore Structures"|publisher=Editions TECHNIP|date=1990|pages=p 50|isbn=2710805723|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=BWe3EhEeOQEC&pg=PA50&dq=%22hundred+year+wave%22&lr=&sig=ACfU3U3tJO3hG6Wo3cSlkHb3S3_9B32hqw|accessdate=2008-09-09]

Various methods are employed to predict the possible steepnesscite book|last=Cruz|first=Joao|title="Ocean Wave Energy: Current Status and Future Prespectives"|publisher=Springer|date=2008|pages=p 16|isbn=3540748946|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=XVBNCexCjoUC&pg=RA1-PA16&dq=%22hundred+year+wave%22&sig=ACfU3U1VKyTzFSuQ7EMsgrotBQn3T5NBVA#PRA1-PA16,M1|accessdate=2008-09-09] and periodcite book|last=Editions Technip|coauthors=Association De Recherche Action Des|title="Sea Climatology"|publisher=Editions TECHNIP|date=1980|pages=p 7|isbn=2710803968|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=FbT9asD7vBwC&pg=PA7&dq=%22hundred+year+wave%22&lr=&sig=ACfU3U3m04w10WY5duJAuiAUAeKQqf3aXA#PPA7,M1|accessdate=2008-09-09] of these waves, in addition to their height.

ee also

*List of wave topics
*Significant wave height
*Shallow water equations

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