EXPERIENCES WITH ULTRASONIC WAVE GAUGESAPPLIED IN THE HAMBURG HARBOUR AREA ANDCOMPARISON OF WAVE DATA WITH NUMERICAL MODELS

摘要

This paper will deal with the experiences and difficulties with the installation, the opera-tion and the maintenance of the ultrasonic wave gauges in the Hamburg Harbour Area. Moreover numerical algorithms for the detection and separation of ship and wind in-duced waves will be given. Besides of wave information at certain points and their analy-sis, for the design of the coastal protection within the harbour also spatial information of the wave distributions are necessary. Therefore numerical simulations with the wave model SWAN of the TU Delft were carried out and compared with the nature measure-ments.