Wind wave analysis of coastal waters using OCEANLYZ toolbox

Abstract

Wind wave analysis in depth limited coastal waters is a very complicated issue and many different parameters are needed in order to conclude an accurate and high-quality output. This MSc Dissertation concerns the wind wave analysis of Mytilene harbor and Eresos coastal waters, using OCEANLYZ toolbox and GNU Octave software. This toolbox contains MATLAB functions for the estimation of wave properties in time domain analysis (zero-crossing method) and frequency domain analysis (spectral analysis method). The theoretical background, the data processing, the wind wave analysis steps as well as the wave parameters for Mytilene harbor and the Eresos coastal waters, are presented.