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T1 Experimental and numerical characterization of harbor oscillations in the port of Málaga, Spain
A1 Sammartino, Simone
A1 Sánchez Garrido, José C.
A1 Delgado-Cabello, Javier
A1 Naranjo-Rosa, Cristina Belén
A1 Criado-Aldeanueva, Francisco
A1 García Lafuente, Jesús
K1 Puertos
AB The port of Málaga is routinely affected by short period sea level oscillations whose amplitudes, typically of few cm, can sporadically outweigh the tidal variations. High frequency oscillations in the innermostbasins may cause problems of stability of the moored crafts. This motivated the characterization of theresonant behavior of the port and its response to external forcing, which has been carried out byexperimental and numerical approaches. The Helmholtz mode of the harbor has been found at  16.5-min period, in both observed data and numerical experiments. A second mode of period around6–7 min, beyond the temporal resolution of the tide gauge, has been detected only in the numericalresults. The typical scenario during the occurrence of harbor oscillations is a low atmospheric pressure(75% of the cases) with noticeable content of high frequency pressure disturbances, a situation that isquite commonly observed during the transit of atmospheric fronts across the Iberian Peninsula. Windsappear to be of secondary influence, even when the oscillations are preferably observed underwesterlies. Although results are not conclusive, resonance mechanisms (Proudman and Greenspanresonance) for transferring energy from the atmosphere to the ocean are proposed as the physicalprocess generating the harbor oscillations.
PB Elsevier
YR 2014
FD 2014-07-11
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/33577
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/33577
LA eng
NO Sammartino, S., Garrido, J. C. S., Delgado, J., Naranjo, C., Aldeanueva, F. C., & Lafuente, J. G. (2014). Experimental and numerical characterization of harbor oscillations in the port of Málaga, Spain. In Ocean Engineering (Vol. 88, pp. 110–119). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2014.06.011
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
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