Maxwave final meeting and summary symposium.

Time : 8 – 10 October 2003.

Venue: Salle B, ground floor,

World Meteorological Organization,

7 bis, avenue de la Paix, Geneva.

Symposium theme:

The Maxwave project, funded by EU, has revealed new and ground breaking knowledge about extremes of ocean waves, their crest heights and trough lows, their spectral shapes, their groupiness and their classification according to wind patterns. The findings of Maxwave are believed to be inherited by marine designers, maritime classification societies, accident investigators, maritime education, and in particular in operational wave forecasting as organized within the Global Maritime Distress Safety System (GMDSS).

Tentative outline programme:

Working hours: 0900 – 1200 and 1400 – 1700, 1600 the last day.

Day 1, October 8, from 0900:

• Opening, WMO welcome (Edouard Sarukhanian)
• WMO/IOC engagement in operational wave forecasting (Peter Dexter)
• The EU’s 5^th and 6^th RTD Framework Programmes, including GMES (Alan Edwards)
• Requirements of MetOcean data. Johannes Guddal, co-president of JCOMM.
• Requirements from JIPs (Chris Shaw)
• Maxwave overview (WR).
• Presentations by consortium WP leaders
• WP1 – WP 10
• SAP internal meeting after 17.00

Day 2, October 9:

• Continued presentations by Maxwave WP leaders
• WMO roles and facities regarding ocean satellite data (Don Hinsman)
• MetOcean Aspects of TerraSAR-X (R. Bamler)
• Presentations by Maxwave expert teams
• Kristian Dysthe: Simulation of extreme waves..." a short resume' of the project's philosophy and some results on spectral evolution and crest height distribution
• Harald Krogstad: Some comments about spatial extremes
• Igor Lavrenov: Wind wave measurements and numerical modelling in typhoons
• Hans Moes: 10-minute overview of what is done with regard to waves in South Africa
• Søeren Peter Kjeldsen: Slamming pressures measured, in a full scale experiment
• Carl Trygve Stansberg: Experimental Studies on Extreme Waves and Impact on Marine Structures
• Vision for the future approaches (WR)

Day 3, October 10:

• Presentations by Maxwave SAP
• The SAP approach and conclusions (JG)
• Summary discussion.
• Adjourn 1600.