The 14th international workshop on wave hindcasting and forecasting and the 5th coastal hazards symposium

Abstract

Following the 14th International Workshop on Wave Hindcasting and Forecasting and 5th Coastal Hazards Symposium in November 2014 in Key West, Florida, a topical collection has appeared in recent issues of Ocean Dynamics. Here, we give a brief overview of the 16 papers published in this topical collection as well as an overview of the widening scope of the conference in recent years. A general trend in the field has been towards closer integration between the wave and ocean modelling communities. This is also seen in this topical collection, with several papers exploring the interaction between surface waves and mixed layer dynamics and sea ice.

The 2nd international workshop on waves, storm surges and coastal hazards incorporating the 16th international workshop on wave hindcasting and forecasting

“…The long history of the International Workshop on Wave Hindcasting and Forecasting has been previously described by Breivik et al ( 2015 , 2017 ) for the topical collections following the 13 th and 14 th Workshops. Swail et al ( 2019a ) described the effort to broaden the scope of the workshops to foster closer integration between the wave and ocean modeling communities and the emerging priority of multi-hazard early warning systems, including the more inclusive naming to the International Workshop on Waves, Storm Surges and Coastal Hazards.…”

Maximal Heights of Nearshore Storm Waves and Resultant Onshore Flow Velocities

“…Thus, there are few data for storm-wave runup in those environments. This matters, because coastal wave energy fluxes are predicted to increase (Mentaschi et al, 2017) and reliable risk analysis for coastal populations is urgently needed (e.g., Switzer et al, 2014;Esteban et al, 2016;Breivik et al, 2017). It is therefore important to understand inshore transmission of storm-wave energy.…”