Investigating machine learning for virtual wave monitoring

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Peach, L
Cartwright, N
Strauss, D
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2020
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Wave monitoring is a time consuming and costly endeavour which, despite best efforts, can be subject to occasional periods of missing data. This paper investigates the application of machine learning to create”virtual” wave height (Hs), period (Tz) and direction (Dp) parameters. Two supervised machine learning algorithms were applied using long term wave parameter datasets sourced from four wave monitoring stations in relatively close geographic proximity. The machine learning algorithms demonstrated reasonable performance for some parameters through testing, with Hs performing best overall followed closely by Tz; Dp was the most challenging to predict and performed relatively the poorest. The creation of such”virtual” wave monitoring stations could be used to hindcast wave conditions, fill observation gaps or extend data beyond that collected by the physical instrument.

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Coastal Engineering Proceedings

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(36v)

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© The Author(s) 2020. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Ocean engineering

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Peach, L; Cartwright, N; Strauss, D, Investigating machine learning for virtual wave monitoring, Coastal Engineering Proceedings, (36v), pp. papers.46