Shallow water predictions and HF radar wave measurements in coastal areas

This paper presents some initial comparisons between HF radar wave measurements and SWAN shallow water wave model results. The comparisons involve fetch limited wave growth and long fetch wave growth scenarios. These allow a simple visual assessment of the results. The HF radar measurements and SWAN results are comparable, although the former contains some spurious measurements, mainly in the near shore. This suggests that the measurements require stricter or different quality controls