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An effectiveness of the storm wave attenuation by protective piers in the Sevastopol Bay of the Black Sea is studied on the basis of numerical simulation using the SWAN spectral model. Analyzed are the parameters of waves generated by winds of four main directions as well as by the southern cyclone during the storm on November 11, 2007. It is obtained that waves from the northwest part of the Black Sea penetrate most intensively into the Sevastopol Bay in case of western wind and, to a lesser degree, in case of northern and southern winds. A protective effect of the piers is observed in the west part of the bay only and the wave attenuation near the southern coast is more significant than near the northern one. The area of the southern coast directly behind the southern pier is completely protected from the storm waves and, as moving away from the pier, the danger of intensive wave effect on the coast is kept.
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Original Russian Text © D.V. Alekseev, V.A. Ivanov, E.V. Ivancha, V.V. Fomin, L.V. Cherkesov, 2013, published in Meteorologiya i Gidrologiya, 2013, No. 4, pp. 47–57.
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Alekseev, D.V., Ivanov, V.A., Ivancha, E.V. et al. Estimation of the effect of protective piers on wind wave parameters in the Sevastopol Bay. Russ. Meteorol. Hydrol. 38, 248–255 (2013). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068373913040067
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