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Nearshore wave predictions along the Oregon and southwest Washington coast

Creator:: García-Medina, Gabriel
Abstract:: This thesis contains a manuscript describing the implementation of a high resolution wave forecasting model for the coasts of Washington and Oregon. The purpose of this project was to advance the wave predictive capabilities of the states of Oregon and the southwest part of Washington by including the effects of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . ©Copyright by Gabriel García-Medina September 7, 2012 All Rights Reserved Nearshore Wave

Munition Mobility in Mixed Grain (Sand and Cobble) Environments

Creator:: Paskoski, Jessica
Abstract:: Nearly 24% of Formerly Used Defense Sites (FUDS) containing military munitions are in the nearshore coastal zone with approximately 30% of those sites containing heterogeneous sediment compositions of gravel-sand. Previous exploration in munition mobility was performed on beaches of sandy or muddy bottoms leaving the influence of heterogeneous sediment properties...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Garcia Medina, for not only walking me through the painful setup of Ubuntu and NHWAVE on more than one

Power Output Calculations for an Array of Point-absorber Wave Energy Converters

Creator:: García-Castaño, Manuel
Abstract:: This study presents a methodology for power take off (PTO) forecasting for an array of heave wave energy converters (WECs). Based on spectral data obtained directly from the National Data Buoy Center, representative realistic sea states are generated at the location of the WECs, and by using two wave-structure interaction...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: thank Gabriel García-Medina for providing the spectra data that was used in this paper as an input and

On the nearshore impact of wave energy converter arrays

Creator:: O'Dea, Annika Magnuson
Abstract:: Radiation stresses, defined as the excess flow of momentum due to the presence of waves (Longuet-Higgins, 1964), are the main drivers behind the cross-shore and longshore forcing that results in wave setup, set-down, and longshore currents (e.g. Svendsen, 2006). Longshore currents entrain and transport sediment and therefore play an important...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: thank Gabriel Garcia-Medina (again) for all of his help along the way

Weather and large waves along the Oregon coast: atmospheric controls on a numerical wave model

Creator:: Ellenson, Ashley N.
Abstract:: In this study, the effects of implementing different wind input or physics packages in a numerical wave model to recreate large wave conditions are explored. Three large wave events are simulated with WaveWatch III. The wind inputs which are compared are NCEP's Global Forecasting System (GFS) with 0.5 degree resolution...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: in helping me become a thought- ful scholar and put together this work. Thanks to Gabriel Garćıa

Coupled wave and surge modeling of Tillamook Bay, Oregon : extreme events and climate change impacts

Creator:: Cheng, Tiffany Kay
Abstract:: Estuaries represent the confluence of land and ocean environments and encompass a number of complex interactions amongst tides, winds, offshore waves and the riverine contributions, all of which contribute to total water levels (TWLs). The study of TWLs and the relative weight of its components can assist local communities in...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: special thank you to Jordan Beamer and Gabriel García-Medina, who have contributed innumerable hours to

Wave Resource Assessments: Spacio-Temporal Effect of Wave Energy Converter Scale and Blue Economy Opportunities

Creator:: Dunkle, Gabrielle R.
Abstract:: Wave energy has the potential to power large and small factions of economies around the world alike. Current methods for determining the amount of wave energy resource available to wave energy converter (WEC) devices entail capturing the look of the sea state at large by presenting characteristic wave heights, periods,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Simulating extreme total water levels using a time-dependent, extreme value approach

Creator:: Serafin, Katherine A.
Abstract:: Coastal flood hazard zones and the design of coastal defenses are often devised using either the maximum recorded total water level (TWL) or a 'design' event such as the 100-year return-level flood, usually projected from observed extreme events. Despite technological advances driving more consistent instrumental records of wave heights and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Keen, Gabriel García, Kyle Landon, Diana DiLeonardo, Jeremy Mull, Nick Cohn, Rebecca Aiken, and Jeff

Breaking Waves Offshore: Measurements and Modeling of Energy Dissipation

Creator:: Ticona Rollano, Fadia M.
Abstract:: In the presence of strong winds, ocean surface waves dissipate significant amounts of energy by breaking. Here, breaking rates and wave-following turbulent dissipation rate measurements are compared with numerical WAVEWATCH III estimates of bulk energy dissipation. At high winds, the measurements suggest that turbulent dissipation becomes saturated, however the modeled...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Brown, Ashley Ellenson, Gabriel García-Medina and Chuan Li, for sharing their vast knowledge and ideas

North Pacific Humpback Whales (Megaptera Novaeangliae) in Northern Southeast Alaska: Population Trends, Monitoring, and Management

Creator:: Thurber, Rhianna L.
Abstract:: After the commercial exploitation of humpback whales (Megaptera Novaeangliae) ceased, population trends in the North Pacific increased with the implementation of federal protective legislation. The recovery of the population prompted the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to divide the population into 14 Distinct Population Segments (DPSs) based on discrete geographic...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: al., 2015). Age structured models from Gabriel et al., (2022) mirrored this concept in that the

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Nearshore wave predictions along the Oregon and southwest Washington coast

Munition Mobility in Mixed Grain (Sand and Cobble) Environments

Power Output Calculations for an Array of Point-absorber Wave Energy Converters

On the nearshore impact of wave energy converter arrays

Weather and large waves along the Oregon coast: atmospheric controls on a numerical wave model

Coupled wave and surge modeling of Tillamook Bay, Oregon : extreme events and climate change impacts

Wave Resource Assessments: Spacio-Temporal Effect of Wave Energy Converter Scale and Blue Economy Opportunities

Simulating extreme total water levels using a time-dependent, extreme value approach

Breaking Waves Offshore: Measurements and Modeling of Energy Dissipation

North Pacific Humpback Whales (Megaptera Novaeangliae) in Northern Southeast Alaska: Population Trends, Monitoring, and Management

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