The Natural Ocean Engineering Laboratory, NOEL, in Reggio Calabria, Italy: A Commentary and Announcement

ABSTRACT Arena, F. and Barbaro, G., 2013. The Natural Ocean Engineering Laboratory, NOEL, in Reggio Calabria, Italy: A commentary and announcement. The Natural Ocean Engineering Laboratory (NOEL) of the Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria, Italy, is the first ocean engineering laboratory working in the field. A peculiarity of the lab is that a local wind from NNW often generates sea states consisting of pure wind waves that represent a small scale model, in Froude similarity, of ocean storms. Significant wave height ranges between 0.20 m and 0.80 m, with peak periods between 2.0 s and 3.6 s. This local wind is very stable and sometimes stays steady from morning to evening. The tidal amplitude is very small (typically within 0.10 m). The physical structure was built after the successful experience of some initial small-scale field experiments directed by Professor Paolo Boccotti since 1989.

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