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Project Number 206
Date of Summary March 31, 1995
Subject Shallow Water Wave and Current Field Study
Performing Activity Oceanweather, Inc.
Principal Investigator Dr. Vincent J. Cardone
Contracting Agency Minerals Management Service
Estimated Completion Complete
Description Provide a comprehensive and reliable database of environmental data in shallow water (as well as offshore) areas affected by Hurricane Andrew, through the implementation and application of advanced numerical wave and current hindcast models. The models to be adopted were previously applied and validated against historical Gulf of Mexico hurricanes. These were and carefully checked and recalibrated against available data acquired in Hurricane Andrew.
Progress Complete

Reports
AA (476 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Hindcast Study of Wind, Wave and Current Fields in Hurricane Andrew - Gulf of Mexico, Draft Final Report submitted by Oceanweather, Inc., November 1994.
AB (482 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Cardone, Vincent J., Andrew T. Cox and J. A. Greenwood, Hindcast Study of Wind, Wave and Current Fields in Hurricane Andrew - Gulf of Mexico, Final Report submitted by Oceanweather, Inc., November 1994.

 

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