Harbor Oscillations

Oral

1181 - The Response Of Harbor Environments Protected By Irregular Fringing Reef Systems To Strong Gravity Wave Forcing - A Case Study

Presenting Author(s)

• AA

  Assaf Azouri, PhD

  Postdoctoral Fellow
  University of Hawai'i

Additional Author (s)

• VR

  Volker Roeber

Additional Author #2(s)

• DL

  Douglas Luther

Three high-resolution, dispersive nearshore numerical models are compared and contrasted with observations from fringing-reef and harbor environments, to test their ability to reproduce the wave transformation processes in a complex Hawaiian reef-system environment forced by highly energetic sea/swell wave conditions. The model outputs and observations are found to be in generally good agreement, as all models successfully reproduce the correct spectral levels and details.
We find that in addition to the local modes of a harbor, large-scale modes that are dependent upon processes distant from the harbor also contribute significantly to the observed IG variability inside the harbor.