Long-term wind climate in a large oceanic island harbour

Abstract

Knowledge of wind climate is of great importance fort he adequate design and construction of harbours and for operational considerations. Statistical properties of wind climate at LasPalmas Port, a large harbour located in an small oceanic island, are studied by using an incomplete data set of maximum daily wind speed covering a period of 10 years. Annual and seasonal variabilities, a swell as probability of extreme values occurrence are examined. Additionally, a time-frequency representation of this nonstationary time series is developed.