4.6 Article

Tropical cyclone-induced wave hazard assessment in Hainan Island, China

Journal

NATURAL HAZARDS
Volume 113, Issue 1, Pages 103-123

Publisher

SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-022-05266-2

Keywords

Wave hazard assessment; ADCIRC plus SWAN; Significant wave height; AP clustering; Deep sea net-cage

Funding

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)-Shandong Joint Fund for Marine Science Research Centers [U1606401]
  2. NSFC Fund [41976166]
  3. Hainan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China [420QN367]
  4. Technology Development Foundation for Research Institutes of Hainan Province (Priority Support Plan)

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This study used a wind-wave-current coupled model to simulate tropical cyclone events over the past 33 years and assessed the nearshore wave hazards using statistical analysis and clustering methods. The results showed that the wave hazard type and water depth conditions are the main factors determining the risk in the nearshore area of Hainan Island. This study is significant in assisting government decision-making in the rational planning of deep sea net-cage aquaculture.
With the rapid expansion of the scale of deep sea net-cage use in the nearshore area of Hainan Island, tropical cyclone-induced wave hazard assessment is urgently needed. In this study, the wind-wave-current coupled ADCIRC + SWAN model, which considers the effects of tidal and storm surges, was used to simulate tropical cyclone events over the last 33 years. This model adopts an unstructured high-resolution grid with a nearshore resolution of up to 100 m. The compared simulated results and observations during typhoons JEBI (2013), HAIYAN (2013) and KALMAEGI (2014) were in agreement. This study statistically analyzed maximum significant wave heights on the basis of a large set of simulated storm wave level maps to derive the wave heights of different return periods. Then, the results of nearshore wave hazard classification were obtained by applying the affinity propagation (AP) clustering method to dozens of nearshore profiles. The results demonstrate that the risk at any point in the nearshore area of Hainan Island is dominated by the wave hazard type and water depth condition. The wave hazard assessment method developed for Hainan Island will be significant in assisting government decision-making in the rational planning of deep sea net-cage aquaculture.

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